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Plot Summary:
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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The Big Departure (1972)
Plot Summary:
An experimental film from the painter and sculptor Martial Raysse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, allegory, weird
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A Spiral of Mist (1977)
Plot Summary:
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Meat (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is awakened to a world of cruelty, shadowy passions and sensuality.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, erotic, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, controversial
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Who Killed Buddy Blue? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Trinity (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a remote arctic research station, government agents Brach and Schiller discover the mysterious genetic scientist Dr. Clerval. A psychological chess game ensues. What links Schiller to Clerval's genetics program? What secrets does Brach harbour? And is Clerval really who he says he is?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: philosophical, spiritual, experimental
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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King of Sorrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Queen of Carthage (2014)
Plot Summary:
An American Drifter discovers a New Zealand Singer and develops and obsession for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Not for Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
"When a senior pathogen scientist (Linnell) working for the CIA goes missing while visiting a colleague in Munich - alarm bells sound across much of Europe. Violence spreads out across the Middle East as the Arab Spring uprising takes hold. M.I.6 agent Frank Reilly (Capstick) is sent to recover British rendition documents from Gaddafi's secret service vault in Libya. With central American drug cartels under pressure from Mexican drug gangs a new trade in African blood diamonds offers them easy cash and new regional control. These stolen African diamonds are the prefect replacement currency to funds terror attacks across Europe and to circumvent the American bank blockade forcing them back to oil credits.A GOD box is stolen from a Russian pathogen lab creating panic within the FSB as fear mounts a terrorist network has obtained the highly contagious H7N7C virus".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a wheelchair-bound wife dies from an apparent accident, her husband and his adult stepdaughter turn out to be lovers, who conspired to murder her. However, tensions surface when complications arise regarding her inheritance, and soon the husband and stepdaughter are distrusting and plotting against each other. Who is really behind everything?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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William, the New Judo Master (2016)
Plot Summary:
Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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The Verdict (1974)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Plot Summary:
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's Big Brother. The ceremonial gowns and make-up here not only evoke the eroticism of European horror movies but also highlight the film's interplay between performance and intimacy. Jonas Mekas called it 'theatre of life'.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: avant garde, erotic, experimental, independent film, weird
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Innuendo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface reveals sordid cracks as she sets about exerting her twisted version of righteousness.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Finland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, independent film
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan and Anaïs Hopkins have only been married a few months, but life together is a nightmare. Anaïs is unstable, cold in bed and often away visiting her sister. Or is she? When Jonathan learns that his estranged father has left him a huge fortune, all he needs is a divorce. Things are looking up when absent Anaïs gets into a serious car accident. At the hospital, Jonathan finds another woman in his wife's place - an incredibly beautiful woman. But she's paralyzed and unable to speak. Why was this perfect stranger's handbag filled with his wife's identification? Where is the real Mrs. Hopkins?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Garbage (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taxi driver Phanishwar is living with a mysterious girl, Nanaam, who he keeps in chains. When a medical student, Rami, a victim of revenge porn leaked online by an ex-boyfriend, seeks refuge in Goa, she stumbles into the strange but placid lives of Phanishwar and Nanaam.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, controversial
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Wolf Lake (1979)
Plot Summary:
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Plenilune (1999)
Plot Summary:
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: detective
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Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Ciudad de Ciegos (1991)
Plot Summary:
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Saturn Bowling (2022)
Plot Summary:
When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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An Independent Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Porcile (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, experimental, erotic, art house, art film, cult classic, avant garde, atmospheric, clever
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Vengeance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher