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Plot Summary:
Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark drama
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Jupiter's Moon (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary secret. Pursued by enraged camp director Laszlo, the fugitives remain on the move in search of safety and money. Inspired by Aryan's amazing powers, Stern takes a leap of faith in a world where miracles are trafficked for small change.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: art house
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Gilgamesh (2014)
Plot Summary:
A military expedition in Siberia gone wrong. The existence of humanity is in peril as Inanna, Sumerian goddess of lust and war has summoned a giant meteor to destroy the planet, after being accidentally set free from her ancient prison. The government has been overturned in a Communist take-over and the citizens of the world; brainwashed. In humanity's darkest hour, the ancient entity of Gilgamesh, older than the cosmos themselves, must decide whether or not to serve of mankind's final hope. Meanwhile, Inanna has hand selected the one man; married man and archaeologist, David Murphy, to live out the rest of eternity with her. Gilgamesh and Inanna are quickly targeted by the new government as potential weapons of mass destruction, and soon the apocalypse has begun.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, cult film
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After Blue (2021)
Plot Summary:
On After Blue, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna, a hairdresser and her teenage daughter hunt a notorious killer by the name of Kate Bush.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, dark
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Moon Child (1989)
Plot Summary:
Since ancient times, a tribe on the African continent has been prophesying that a white boy will arrive to be their god: the Son of the Moon. David, a 12-year-old orphan who lives in Europe, learns about the prophecy and believes that he is the chosen child and that destiny must be fulfilled at any cost. Before David can fulfill his prophecy he must escape the heavily guarded scientific organization that has adopted him. David's strange behavior and the fact that he possesses extrasensory perception, has attracted the attention of an organization researching so-called "prodigious beings" in the occult tradition. David soon discovers that their goal is to channel the moon's energy into a child yet to be born, robbing him of his rightful place as the Son of the Moon. Two women, Victoria, a member of the center, and Georgina, the future mother of the supposed moonchild, will help David fulfill his destiny. After several attempts David manages to escape the center and undergoes a series.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, manga, gay cinema, weird
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Still Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
There are victims that arrive by night. They intuit, unaware of the danger that awaits them. They may attempt to resist, but a young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. A dog is the only witness of this terrifying world that seems certain never to end.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful
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Vincent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, and that is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, emotional, touching, serious
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The Wild Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good families enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the Captain’s methods, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers that holds a disturbing secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, psychological thriller, funny, dark, experimental, underground film, art house, dark drama, queer horror
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Dragonfight (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the future, large corporations earn millions of dollars by staging gladiatorial fights to the death that are shown on worldwide television. One day, however, a fighter who is scheduled to hunt and kill an opponent in the Arizona desert decides he's had enough, and makes a run for it. His opponent is instructed to track him down and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Next One (1984)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Centrespread (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modelling.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sophia Antipolis (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hot
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The Seed of Man (1969)
Plot Summary:
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychedelic, aesthetic, grotesque
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The Noah (1975)
Plot Summary:
Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory - our world. Written by Daniel Bourla.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, existential, mystic, avant garde, allegory, independent film, cult film
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Ares (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, cyber, low-budget
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The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
Plot Summary:
After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Fantasy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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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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Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
Plot Summary:
In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: experimental, neorealism, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, disturbing, grotesque
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2050 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family man struggling to hold it all together discovers a parlor that offers a solution...sexbots.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: China, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Northlander (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, independent film
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Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
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Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic drama, contemplative, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, spooky, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, corny
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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Plot Summary:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, spiritual, mind blowing, poetic, twisted, eighties
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Maryline (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Respiro (2002)
Plot Summary:
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, talky, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, art house, erotic
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Happy End (2009)
Plot Summary:
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, offbeat, non-linear
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Ravagers (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie