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Plot Summary:
Jack Porter was a lonely man whose sole devotion was guarding an abandoned hospital, until he met Hannah, a homeless woman using the hospital for refuge. Over a year she changed Jack's life completely, before fate separated them. Jack forces his way back into the hospital to remember the woman he loved, the times they shared and the way he lost her.
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Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, art film
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A Reckoning (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lone man, trapped and imprisoned in a barren, desolate landscape. His only companions are a village of straw people with which he converses with as neighbours and friends; he even teaches straw children at the local school. Yet, this anchor, this way of habitual living, is about to become unravelled in frightening and disturbing ways. Leading the way to A RECKONING.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, scary, unusual plot structure, disturbing, controversial
Similar in 79%
Flowerman (2014)
Plot Summary:
Loving wife & mother Sarah is abducted by intelligent and forensically aware psychopath Nigel. The family and the police are subjected to a manipulation of the reality that surrounds them. Relating to the darkest side of the human character Flowerman also connects with both a spiritual aspect and a basic drive for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
Similar in 78%
Blind Spot (2009)
Plot Summary:
In poetic images, "Blindlings" tells a tale of broken trust and the false prejudices that arise when love is lost. Max "kidnaps" his ex-girlfriend Eva, to take her to a romantic mountain cottage, where he hopes to finally talk things out. They never get there. After their car breaks down in a snowbound forest, Max leaves to find the cottage on foot. Unprepared for a trip into the wild, Eva stays in the car. He had vowed to get help, but Max loses his way in the forest. In the clutch of the blistering cold, the border between memory and reality begins to blur. When Boris, an old hermit appears on the scene, they are both unsure if he will bring salvation - or death.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sad, crying
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The Messenger (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he’s desperate to say one last goodbye, Jack finds himself getting closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark’s message. Discovering hidden secrets and lies finally pushes the fragile Jack over the edge but there is hope when his estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch. Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he confronts the truth about the death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, tense, thrilling, psychotronic
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The Secret Rapture (1993)
Plot Summary:
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wander Darkly (2020)
Plot Summary:
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, suspenseful, non-linear
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The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Plot Summary:
Harold Pelham, a partner in a large electronics firm, finds himself in bewildering circumstances after recovering from a near-fatal car accident. What causes him to renounce his high business principles? Why do friends and colleagues repeatedly sight him in places he has never been? And why does Julie, an attractive girl he has seen only once, claim such an intimate relationship with him? Does Pelham really have a doppelganger – or is he losing his mind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, weird, cult film
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Lovelorn (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London, the deserted afterlife and a mysterious dreamscape, LOVELORN is a story of lost souls trying to save each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy
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The Adored (2012)
Plot Summary:
Photographer Francesca builds Maia's confidence while having to control her own obsessive and sexual desires towards Maia. As they spend more time together, Maia becomes the object of her obsession and things slowly spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer horror, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, twisted
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My House in Umbria (2003)
Plot Summary:
Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, talky, gloomy
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My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, sweet, novela
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Winter Sleepers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexual, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, erotic, road movie, sexy
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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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Waking the Dead (2000)
Plot Summary:
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexy, stylized, intense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, serious, erotic
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Abandon (2002)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized, serious, detective, atmospheric, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Felicia's Journey (1999)
Plot Summary:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Enduring Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, stylized, serious, bleak, realistic, suspense
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Far North (2007)
Plot Summary:
A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, gloomy, epic, crying
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Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, sexy, gloomy, mystic, mindfuck, contemplative, crying
Similar in 77%
Fascination (2004)
Plot Summary:
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), who shared Scott's doubts about the upcoming nuptials. Along the way, he falls in love with Kelly, but a fatal explosion turns Scott's life upside down - and the evidence points to him as the murderer. Has he been framed?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense, romantic, realistic, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 89%
Amy Foster (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, scenic, touching, captivating, sad, emotional, political thriller, tear jerker, cute, romantic drama
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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, serious, captivating, realistic, scenic, romantic, political
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Three Colors: Red (1994)
Plot Summary:
Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog to the judge's house, she discovers him listening in on his neighbors' phone conversations. At first Valentine is outraged, but her debates with the judge over his behavior soon leads them to form a strange bond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: colorful, atmospheric, art house, visual, cerebral, philosophical, enigmatic, psychological, touching, intellectual
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Half Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, surprise ending, stylized, intense, enigmatic, scary
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Julieta (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: emotional, melancholic, sentimental, thought provoking, art house, colorful, erotic, epic, hispanic, sexual
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The Falling (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller, dark, slasher, sad, stylized
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A Ghost Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, post-horror, philosophical, sad, surreal, mindfuck, inspirational, mind bending, melancholic
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Original Sin (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, France, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, erotic, suspense, atmospheric, sensual, period piece, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful, exciting
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Jane Eyre (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating, costume drama, period piece, visually appealing, sexy, emotional