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Plot Summary:
Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: social
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Kung Fu Zohra (2022)
Plot Summary:
Zohra is convinced that separating from her husband Omar would break her little girl’s heart and so determines not to leave him despite the violence he metes out. Then she meets Chang Sue, the caretaker of the gym where she works to make ends meet. When she learns that he’s a kung fu master, Zohra asks him to teach her some self-defence basics….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: social
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Struggles in Italy (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: experimental
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The Good Ground (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with cancer travels to a remote wilderness zone in Northern Italy in search of an alternative cure. What she and her friend, Martino, find is a secluded paradise, but their arrival threatens its fragile existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
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Riviera (2005)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Lady Caliph (1970)
Plot Summary:
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
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Caged Beauties (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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The Days Between (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
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The Feelings Factory (2008)
Plot Summary:
Attractive, educated and successful, Eloïse (Elsa Zylberstein) has it all, except for a long-term, stable romantic relationship. Now in her mid-30s, she can hear a certain clock ticking loudly. So she enrolls in a speed dating program. Seven men, seven women, pre-screened for compatibility. You have seven minutes to take the measure of each other before you both move on to other candidates. The Feelings Factory is a remarkable look at one variation of modern romance, a streamlined notion of courtship that gets past all the awkward preliminaries that seem to capsize such encounters. Zylberstein is perfect in the role: her self assurance and intelligence not to mention her sense of humor can always be felt, even as she reveals bits of her needs and vulnerabilities to potential suitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Sadie (2018)
Plot Summary:
While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Nicole (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to, Nicole begins to spin out of control. Her decadent and lustful life leads to murder, despair and, ultimately, mournful regret in this cautionary tale for the idle rich who have too much money and time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Melanie (1982)
Plot Summary:
A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Carne (1968)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of an attractive woman who works in a cold store.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Alice (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alice has deeply buried feelings and memories for her sister Manon who is about to be married. During their childhood the two sisters were extremely close not only emotionally, but also sexually. With news of the wedding the pain of the past resurfaces and Alice's relationship with her girlfriend Elsa start to fall apart. As the wedding approaches Alice reminisces about her childhood, and has trouble letting go of her incestuous relationship with her sister Manon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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The Divine Nymph (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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La bambola (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Playing with Fire (1975)
Plot Summary:
Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter Carolina, (Anicee Alvine) is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, postmodern
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
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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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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Jessica (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
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Joy (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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Honey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, art house, gloomy
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The Promised Life (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.
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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Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)
Plot Summary:
Annabella (Charlotte Rampling) marries Soranzo (Fabio Testi). She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni (Oliver Tobias) - who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge. Based on John Ford's play, "Pity she's a whore", respecting its poetic text, and careful Italian Renaissance settings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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The Night Porter (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house, sexy, bleak, sexual, erotic, cult classic