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Plot Summary:
In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: experimental, disturbing, controversial, avant garde
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The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
Plot Summary:
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, weird
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, weird
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Parental Guidance (1996)
Plot Summary:
A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, cult classic, experimental, independent film
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Salome (1972)
Plot Summary:
A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. The story is told in a bizarre way of fast cuts, repetitive dialogue and extreme satire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, weird
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, experimental, avant garde, independent film, freeze frame, weird, student film
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Art History (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts and he begins sabotaging his own production.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sensual, independent film
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Plot Summary:
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's Big Brother. The ceremonial gowns and make-up here not only evoke the eroticism of European horror movies but also highlight the film's interplay between performance and intimacy. Jonas Mekas called it 'theatre of life'.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: avant garde, erotic, experimental, independent film, weird
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Plot Summary:
Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy, intimate relationship with the family rabbit.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, offbeat, disturbing, erotic drama, art house, surreal, psychedelic, weird, cult film
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Mandara (1971)
Plot Summary:
About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to organ music in the creative camera angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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Day-Dream (1964)
Plot Summary:
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy, weird
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Eden and After (1970)
Plot Summary:
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, enigmatic, experimental, surreal, controversial, avant garde, weird
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Vital Signs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Triggered by the death of a family member a young woman embarks on a singular journey of helping people who are about to die. The dying have nothing to lose and need lasting moments of intimacy that Simone finds herself willing to give at no cost. But Boris won't let her get away with it quite that easily. He realizes how well she hides behind those intense but short lived relationships. He won't hesitate to provoke her in a violent burst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: avant garde, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, experimental, crying
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The Story of Sin (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial, beautiful
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Child's Play (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Roula (1995)
Plot Summary:
Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter Tanja to keep him company. As romance blooms between Leon and Roula, his daughter approves. Unfortunately, Roula is carrying heavy emotional baggage stemming from the incest she suffered at the hands of her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual
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Vortex (1967)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman Hana Angelousi is lured aboard the yacht of a man who is trying to break the spell that turns men into stone. An updated version of the legend of Perseus and Medusa.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Man, Woman and Beast (1977)
Plot Summary:
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's inability to show emotions and therefore more and more often slips into the world of dreams. A perverse butcher engaged in sex with the meat he sells when he's not peeping on young girls. A girl who became pregnant after having sex with her father. In this town a mysterious stranger show up and who turns on several of the inhabitants lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, weird, sexploitation film
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The Conviction (1991)
Plot Summary:
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial
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The Last Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. It covers a period from evening to morning, and the sexual couplings among the members of the house becomes increasingly harrowing as daylight arrives.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, independent film
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Hail Mary (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, erotic, psychedelic, spiritual, art house, mind bending, surreal, absurd
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What Is It? (2005)
Plot Summary:
What Is It? is the name of a 2005 experimental film written, starring, funded and directed by Crispin Glover. As of 2008, the film has only been shown at independent theaters, typically accompanied by a question and answer session, slideshow and meet-and-greet/autograph signing with Glover.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, avant garde, controversial, psychotronic, intelligent, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Touch Me Not (2018)
Plot Summary:
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, explicit, aesthetic, transgressive, experimental, touching, avant garde
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Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, mind bending, disturbing, avant garde, weird, cult film
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Naked Instinct (1993)
Plot Summary:
A woman is in therapy because of her uncontrollable desire for young men. She recounts stories of her sordid past, including seducing a rich kid when his parents are away, and giving a fraternity boy a good time. The therapist tells her about another of his patients who has virtually the same problem, and tells of this patient's encounters with a pool cleaner, a hot tub repairman, a football jock, and a young army recruit. Eventually patient and therapist get to know each other better.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, gay cinema, hot
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Fruits of Passion (1981)
Plot Summary:
A girl loves a rich and much older man and is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he joins "the revolution". Additionally the movie shows the fate of some of the other prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, eros, retro, sensual, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, hot
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The Brown Bunny (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious, stylized, intense, psychological, experimental, disturbing
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird