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Plot Summary:
17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. While Sami's and his roommate's Rude's eccentric friendships gradually increases, the truth of past events begin to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, touching, suspenseful, sexy
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My Friend Henry (2004)
Plot Summary:
When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Run the Tide (2016)
Plot Summary:
When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fighting Fish (2010)
Plot Summary:
When David's sister returns home after a long absence, their complicated past comes back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lovechild (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day seventeen-year-old Alma sees her father who had left the family five years before and had never contacted them since then accidentally on a subway stop in Berlin. She finds out where he works and start spending time together. Very soon the feelings they have for each other extend a normal father-daughter basis and they erotically attract each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, disturbing, erotic, ambiguous ending
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Bad Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bad Family (Finnish: Paha perhe) is a 2010 Finnish drama/black comedy film written and directed by Aleksi Salmenperä and produced by Aki Kaurismäki. The film tells the story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children. Distributed domestically by Sandrew Metronome, Bad Family was theatrically released in Finland on January 29, 2010. From February 14 to February 21, 2010, it was screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, witty, disturbing, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Easy Land (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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No Letting Go (2015)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, independent film
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Princess (2010)
Plot Summary:
Happier than the rest of us?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic
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Elephant Song (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, sexy, independent film, aesthetic, gay cinema
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Something Is Killing Tate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The question is: "What?" Tate attempts to isolate himself to his apartment - hiding from the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, cerebral, realistic, biting, suspense
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Hands of a Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did to him when he was a little boy. Markus and his wife Monika find themselves confronted with an ugly truth of the kind you wouldn’t think a mother capable of.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense
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A Love to Keep (2006)
Plot Summary:
Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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The New Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, emotional, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
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The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the team built a raft. It accommodated 147 people: soldiers, sailors, several passengers and officers. The plan was for the boats to tow the raft. But the cable broke and the raft drifted into the open sea. For those who were on the raft, a harsh and cruel struggle for life began.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Anna M. (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch with him but, after several rejections, finds herself descending into despair and, ultimately, hatred.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious, suspenseful
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Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, clever, talky, sexy, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Lost Transmissions (2019)
Plot Summary:
When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, sincere, enigmatic, depressing
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On the Edge (2001)
Plot Summary:
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, talky, independent film, cerebral, cult classic, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hidden Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Illegitimate (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Poland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, touching, psychological, melancholic, contemplative, visually appealing
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Torn Apart (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Grand Jeté (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, philosophical, intellectual, smart, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Waking Madison (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic, touching, depressing, atmospheric, independent film, bleak
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Manic (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a variety of illnesses.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, disturbing, compassionate, depressing, rough, cerebral, teen, realistic, talky
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Hunger Point (2003)
Plot Summary:
Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters thin. The results of this mother's tyranny is unimaginable. This movie really captures the dangers of eating disorders like no other. Based on the best-selling book of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Interiors (1978)
Plot Summary:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, all bets are off when an ebullient stranger enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, realistic, melancholic, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, emotional, disturbing, serious
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, teen, sincere, uplifting, touching
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Helen (2009)
Plot Summary:
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental, atmospheric, sincere, serious, independent film, beautiful