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Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, sexual, talky, controversial, tricky
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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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Danika (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, detective, scary, realistic, psychotronic
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The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Plot Summary:
Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: black and white, atmospheric, talky, psychological, tense, serious, sexual, retro, uplifting, existential
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative
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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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Agnes of God (1985)
Plot Summary:
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, slasher, clever, contemplative
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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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Enduring Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, stylized, serious, bleak, realistic, suspense
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Teorema (1968)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, depressing, experimental
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Lilith (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, their relationship deepens and intensifies, and the differences between them begin to blur, leading to a shocking, but oddly logical conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, retro, social, surreal, sexual, contemplative, gloomy
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The Cement Garden (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sexy, talky, art house, compassionate, psychological, serious, realistic, controversial
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Plot Summary:
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, independent film, emotional, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, controversial
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Bad Timing (1980)
Plot Summary:
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear, psychological, atmospheric, sexual, scary, noir
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Shock Corridor (1963)
Plot Summary:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, harsh, grindhouse
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric, breathtaking, visual, thought provoking, contemplative
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Plot Summary:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 366000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, sexy, artsy, neo noir, atmospheric, psychological thriller, disturbing, surreal, suspense
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Session 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak, suspenseful, dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense
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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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Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, art house, enigmatic, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, erotic, visual, allegory
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Side Effects (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tricky, captivating, clever, serious, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending
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Spider (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, twist ending, suspenseful, offbeat, non-linear, mindfuck, mind bending
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, clever
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Open Your Eyes (1997)
Plot Summary:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, atmospheric, mind bending, philosophical, mindfuck, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Plot Summary:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, psychological, slow cinema, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, emotional, psychological, erotic, depressing, art house, touching
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric, mind bending, disturbing, cerebral, surprise ending, enigmatic
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, twist ending, psychological, disturbing, scary, bleak, surprise ending, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological thriller
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Proof (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, serious, heartbreaking, realistic, depressing
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Stay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, gloomy, mindfuck, suspense, mind blowing, mind bending