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Plot Summary:
Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine turns the recorder on and gives a firework of singing, acting and dancing. However in the acting school she lacks self confidence to uninhibitedly storm the stage. After the well known director Kasper Friedemann invites Fine for an audition, she convinces him with her acting.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Viola (2012)
Plot Summary:
Several actresses get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue while performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, non-linear, clever, witty, talky, postmodern, independent film
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
Plot Summary:
The melodrama of a failing, aging movie star who takes up with an ambitious masseur who takes her home only to show off in front of his former girl friend and her powerful father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized, gloomy
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Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Broken Windows (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic
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Once Upon a Time Veronica (2012)
Plot Summary:
A finely tuned, emotionally raw portrait of a woman’s conflicted entry into adulthood, Once Upon a Time Veronica is a thoroughly modern anti–fairy tale. Director Marcelo Gomes shows a rare ability to get under the skin — and cut close to the bone — of his emotionally vulnerable but resilient main character. Anchored by a tour de force performance from the fearless Hermila Guedes, this sensual, psychologically complex character study charts the personal and professional growth of one young woman in Recife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Anna (1987)
Plot Summary:
Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Plot Summary:
A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, independent film
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Breaking Horizons (2012)
Plot Summary:
“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what to do with her life – she does a lot, but nothing properly. She now finds herself pregnant after a night of passion with a charming barman she met at a party. Nora is thrilled by the news though, proclaiming: “we’re having a baby!” After some initial doubts, Lara too begins to see her pregnancy as a chance. Together with Nora, she sets about painting the nursery and goes in search of the baby’s father. Then the gynaecologist gives Lara some bad news….
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, sexy, realistic
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The Gang of Four (1989)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable high-school seniors gain from each other the courage to face the harsh realities of their rapidly approaching adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, witty, suspense
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War Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, bleak, contemplative, stylized, gloomy
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4.48 (2014)
Plot Summary:
In order to win over a tough dramatist at her next audition, a young actress turns to method acting to such an extreme that she slowly loses herself in the coveted role of a promiscuous bisexual self-destructive wild girl and starts sleeping around, provoking fights and cutting herself. Can she pull herself back from the edge of the abyss before it's too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic, hot
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The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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Us (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, sexy, bleak
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Early One Morning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, tense, bleak, realistic, non-linear, gloomy
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Hitler's Grave (2010)
Plot Summary:
Asia is a young Iranian woman whose brother has been tortured in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent controversial presidential elections in Iran. She goes to Berlin to find the grave of Hitler fulfilling a promise made to her brother, she must then fulfill one more promise which will be kept secret until the end of the film.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, tense, serious, contemplative
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7 Years (2006)
Plot Summary:
A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a distinct new voice from a promising young director. Hattu soon reveals that Maite’s husband Vincent is in prison for an unspecified crime, and that she has promised to wait for him and attend to his laundry (if not his conjugal needs) during his incarceration. On one of her weekly visits, Maite meets Jean, an oddly inquisitive and boldly flirtatious prison warden, and soon the two commence a joyless affair. Seemingly smitten with Maite, Jean, in a gesture of kindness to his lover, eases up on her husband behind bars; the two become pals and even engage in some homoerotic shower talk. —Robert O’Shaughnessy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Bad Girl (2012)
Plot Summary:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Amazon Falls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Amazon Falls tells the story of a faded B-movie actress JANA who refuses to let go of her dream of being a star. Famous for her roles in Amazon movies where she portrayed a variety of pre-Xena warrior-princesses, she desperately tries to keep her leg in the B-movie game, and pursues her career with a zealous fervor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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Violent Blue (2011)
Plot Summary:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks her in a cage.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, surreal, cynical, psychological, tense, captivating, gloomy, independent film, psychological thriller
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The Invisible Eye (2010)
Plot Summary:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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Class Enemy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, educational, psychological, tense
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The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, gloomy
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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Poison Friends (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: talky, psychological, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, cynical, tense, witty, biting
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Phantom Pain (2009)
Plot Summary:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with the help of love and willpower.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Being 14 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, tense, sincere, serious, gloomy
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All the Light in the Sky (2012)
Plot Summary:
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy
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Beautiful Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug-fueled bodyguard, Angry Jack, to get close to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film
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Venus in Fur (2013)
Plot Summary:
An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, stylized, sexual, psychological, sexy, atmospheric, tense, witty, captivating, surreal
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Bas-fonds (2010)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a complex game of love and domination. Magalie, the ringleader, subjugates through her male power, and bestial charisma. Simple Marie-Steph, her younger sister, remains in the background, and Barbara, unaware of her own prettiness, has joined the pack because she loves Magalie. One day, at Magalie’s instigation, and almost out of boredom, they hold up a bakery and kill the baker with a buckshot gun. Life gradually resumes, but nothing is the same.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, surreal, offbeat, captivating, realistic, contemplative