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Plot Summary:
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological drama, I Love Your Work explores the pressures of fame and the difference between getting what you want and wanting what you get.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, mindfuck, gloomy, crying, freeze frame
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Cafe Society (1995)
Plot Summary:
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Beyond Suspicion (2000)
Plot Summary:
An insurance salesman's humdrum existence takes a turn when a stranger, ex-con Auggie Rose, unexpectedly dies in his arms. Assuming the identity of the dead man, the salesman embarks on a double life, keeping it secret from his live-in girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, detective, clever, realistic, neo noir, independent film
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Wetherby (1985)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Plot Summary:
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: mindfuck, atmospheric, twist ending, touching, mumblecore, sentimental, serious, realistic, surprise ending, crying
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The Men's Club (1986)
Plot Summary:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, independent film, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying
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Borrowed Moments (2014)
Plot Summary:
Melissa and Ben Brenner have been simply going through the motions as a married couple, until the day Ben's world is turned upside down when he serendipitously meets the woman of his dreams, and they both are forced to face their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy
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The Walker (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, contemplative, political, suspense, slasher, clever, captivating
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Plot Summary:
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: retro, meta, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, soap opera
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The Wager (2007)
Plot Summary:
An actor at the pinnacle of his Hollywood career finds himself buckling to temptation after he accepts the lead in a classic tale of good versus evil. Michael Steele has just been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. In the wake of that announcement, Michael is cast in what may be the role of a lifetime. He's set to play the lead in an incredible story of monumental conflict, but will all of the swirling gossip around Michael cause him to stumble on the path of righteousness? His marriage is in jeopardy and his career is on the line. This man who has always tried to do the right thing must find the courage and conviction needed to set his life straight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, realistic, thought provoking, contemplative, gloomy
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Irresistible (2006)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, slasher, surprise ending, crying
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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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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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New Best Friend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: intense, stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, teen horror, sexual, crying, erotic, sexy
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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The Inheritors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, allegory
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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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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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Cannes Man (1997)
Plot Summary:
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Ellie Parker (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support primarily from her friend Sam. But when Ellie meets Chris after a minor traffic accident, she sees new potential for both romance and her life in general.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, neurotic, humorous, realistic, witty, mockumentary, psychological, clever, offbeat, biting
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Plot Summary:
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, independent film, mockumentary, humorous, fake documentary, cult film
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Valentino (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, crying, period drama, campy
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Jerome (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of becoming an artist in Jerome, Arizona, a town he knows only through a postcard given to him years earlier by a co-worker. Naturally, an action as extreme as this is not without consequences. On his way, Wade meets Jane, a road hard, enigmatic drifter who lives the life of total freedom he has longed for. As the two speed farther and farther across the scorching Arizona desert, events snowball into an unforeseen crisis forcing Wade to confront realities he never could have imagined only hours earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Delta of Venus (1995)
Plot Summary:
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, postmodern, independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, intellectual
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Crashing (2007)
Plot Summary:
It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) out into the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious, sexual
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Dangerous Game (1993)
Plot Summary:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough, art house, independent film, erotic drama, bleak, serious
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Star 80 (1983)
Plot Summary:
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic, depressing, thought provoking, neo noir, cynical, gloomy
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Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
Plot Summary:
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, iconic
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Luce (2019)
Plot Summary:
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, non-linear, social, art film, cult classic, twisted, black cinema