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Plot Summary:
A young, female filmmaker looks through her camera for an object to film. She wants to film the private live of an ordinary person and starts following Guy. He is very irritated about this girl following him, always looking through her camera, never showing herself. She does not even say her name but follows him even home to his bedroom. He tries to get rid of her but she does not stop. After a while he gets used to the camera and the girl behind it and tries to get involved with her. First she protects herself with her camera but cannot keep the barrier up. When their feelings and Guy's actions become too confusing for them Guy disappears mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, documentary filmmaking
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The Bird of Happiness (1993)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, a woman dedicated to the restoration of works of art, suffers a sexual assault shortly after being reunited with his only son. But she suffers from psychological disorder does not affect the man she lives. Deeply disappointed, he decides to embark on his own journey to the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Block C (1994)
Plot Summary:
Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, serious, realistic
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Sue (1997)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, independent film, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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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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Pretend I'm Not Here (2000)
Plot Summary:
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Something in the Way (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, bleak, sincere, realistic, gloomy
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3 Steps to Heaven (1995)
Plot Summary:
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Help Me, Eros (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ah Jie lost everything in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. He spends his days in his sealed apartment, smoking joints and looking after the marijuana plants that he secretly grows in his wardrobe. In desperation, he calls a suicide helpline and gets to know Chyi, whose sweet and gentle voice causes him to fall in love with his fantasized image of her. He tries to ask her out but is repeatedly rejected. He begins projecting his fantasy of Chyi on Shin, the new girl working at the betel nut stall downstairs. Shin is always sexily dressed in order to lure male customers. Ah Jie becomes closer to her and soon the two of them sink into a world of erotic and psychedelic pleasures. At the same time, Ah Jie begins to stalk Chyi.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying, erotic, sexy
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Decomposed (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his fiancee breaks up with him and gets engaged to another man, Dennis can't get over the idea that the cheap engagement ring he bought may have triggered it. When she dies, he convinces two grave robbers to steal the new ring from her body, in hopes of learning how much true love really cost, whilst partaking in "wet" cigarettes.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, sincere, offbeat, bleak, independent film, biting
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Cold Water of the Sea (2010)
Plot Summary:
On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, 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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Claire Dolan (1998)
Plot Summary:
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, cult classic, crying, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Mr. Vincent (1997)
Plot Summary:
A tale of obsession and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Sons and Lovers (1982)
Plot Summary:
During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Lea (2011)
Plot Summary:
Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new opportunities, but at a high price. Léa finds work as a striptease artist, so that each evening she can put into practice the theory of economic liberalism which she learns by day.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, explicit, gloomy, sexual, hot
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Heat and Sunlight (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, exciting, offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, fast, surreal
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Woman, Woman (1979)
Plot Summary:
Recently turned into a widow, Alice (Helena Ramos) goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos (Carlos Casan), but falls in love with Marta (Petty Pesce). However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange feelings in her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sexual
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X/Y (2014)
Plot Summary:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, erotic
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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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Locked in Silence (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Blackout (2007)
Plot Summary:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and vulnerability.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak
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A Girl at the Window (2001)
Plot Summary:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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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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This Beautiful City (2007)
Plot Summary:
Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol’s body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol’s vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression. Beautiful things can happen when you hit rock bottom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, erotic, independent film, gloomy, tragic ending
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Devil in the Flesh (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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Lap Dancing (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angie is having no luck auditioning for movies. She thinks about going back home, but her roommate Claudia convinces her to try working at the "gentleman's club" with her in order to gain more life experience. Angie hopes to be able to turn the experience toward more effective acting but is having difficulty overcoming her inhibitions. She meets a burned out movie director at the club who helps her with her dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Open Window (2006)
Plot Summary:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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The End of Innocence (1990)
Plot Summary:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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The Big Brass Ring (1999)
Plot Summary:
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic