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Plot Summary:
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, hispanic
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India Song (1975)
Plot Summary:
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, experimental, contemplative
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Spiderwebhouse (2015)
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When 12-year-old Jonas’ mother leaves to “fight her demons”, he steps up as head of the household, becoming the unofficial guardian to his younger siblings. With food and money running out, the children retreat into a world of their own where, cloaked eerily in black-and-white, their home turns into one of bugs and mysticism – they make saucepan gardens, they take on insects as pets and spiderwebs encroach. Only the friendship of an odd young homeless man gives Jonas hope to survive in an adult’s world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic, gloomy, psychotronic
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The Virgin of Lust (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, gloomy, sexual
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Eva (1962)
Plot Summary:
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Bloodworth (2010)
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E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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The Delinquents (1989)
Plot Summary:
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Julia and Julia (1987)
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Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other world she is married to Paolo who's alive and well with their five year old son, where Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel, in which the frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Julia crazy when she begins having difficulty in telling them apart and learning which world she is currently living in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, sexy, serious, tense, rough, realistic, independent film, sexual
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Or (My Treasure) (2004)
Plot Summary:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, psychological, sincere, bleak, realistic, erotic, depressing, gloomy, crying
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The Past (2007)
Plot Summary:
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer him, torture him or redeem him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, erotic, hispanic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Year of the Nail (2007)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, experimental, sexual
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Some Things That Stay (2004)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Run of the Country (1995)
Plot Summary:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical romance, independent film, erotic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Colombia
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, rough, bleak, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Empty Hours (2013)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 820
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Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, controversial, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, masterpiece
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Levitation (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
Plot Summary:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, contemplative, gloomy
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The Cruel Embrace (1987)
Plot Summary:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn for his mother's affection. Nicole enters into a loveless marriage with an older man who agrees to adopt Ludo, but her deteriorating mental health leads her to sloth and alcoholism. Ludo is sent off to an asylum, but escapes and takes up residence on a deserted beach in an old tanker that has run aground. This feature won the grand prize at the 1987 Barcelona Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 181
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Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Crackie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade. She is left to be brought up by her mercurial grandmother Bride, who is well-meaning but oppressively suffocating. Mitsy's dreams for the future hinge on her desire to be a hairdresser, but her current emotional well-being revolves around a wee dog named Sparky, an unwanted canine misfit to whom she becomes hopelessly attached. After Bride agrees to let Mitsy take the dog in as a pet, the teen tries desperately to create a happy, safe place for Sparky to thrive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Ashamed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Arts professor Jung Ji Woo is searching for a nude model for a video clip that will be played at her exhibition. When Hee-jin, one of her students, recommends Yoon Ji Woo for the job, the three woman head to the beach to shoot the video. As they spend time together, Yoon Ji Woo begins to share pieces of her past relationship with Kang Ji Woo. The film weaves the pasts and presents of the three Ji Woos and focuses on their intersecting relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, surreal, contemplative, sincere, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Plot Summary:
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy, sexual
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The Whore's Son (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, melancholic, emotional, sexual, sincere, contemplative, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic
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Plot Summary:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional, serious, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, erotic
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Plot Summary:
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, controversial, serious, realistic, sexy, eighties
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Bilitis (1977)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, manga, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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