Best movies like Love Eternal
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Plot Summary:
Based on the Japanese novel 'Loving the Dead' from acclaimed author Kei Oishi, the film centres on a damaged young man who, after shutting himself away for ten years, is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer understands.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, bleak, disturbing, serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy
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Endtime (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eight friends throw a goodbye party to welcome the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, exciting, captivating, contemplative, talky, gloomy
Similar in 85%
Exit Plan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, psychological, disturbing, suspense, surreal, weird
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The Absent Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and having a romantic relationship with her until she thinks it's time to stop. Adrian becomes overwhelmed by the memories of his grandfather and mentor now dead. Then he falls in love with a young neighbour but she is more real in her imagination than in ordinary daily life. Adrian discovers that is just having fantasies and wants to put an end to his life. But his talent comes in the figure on an ancestor to help him and move on to a meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Ten Days Wonder (1971)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father (Orson Welles). Welcomed by Welles' young wife (Marlene Jobert), Piccoli soon finds a nest of rats beneath the bourgeoisie voluptuousness -- a clan bound in a circle of illicit romance, blackmail, faked burglaries and, of course, murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Mystery, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Once Upon a Time Veronica (2012)
Plot Summary:
A finely tuned, emotionally raw portrait of a woman’s conflicted entry into adulthood, Once Upon a Time Veronica is a thoroughly modern anti–fairy tale. Director Marcelo Gomes shows a rare ability to get under the skin — and cut close to the bone — of his emotionally vulnerable but resilient main character. Anchored by a tour de force performance from the fearless Hermila Guedes, this sensual, psychologically complex character study charts the personal and professional growth of one young woman in Recife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Like a Cast Shadow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Decomposed (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his fiancee breaks up with him and gets engaged to another man, Dennis can't get over the idea that the cheap engagement ring he bought may have triggered it. When she dies, he convinces two grave robbers to steal the new ring from her body, in hopes of learning how much true love really cost, whilst partaking in "wet" cigarettes.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspense, sincere, offbeat, bleak, independent film, biting
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The Sensation of Sight (2006)
Plot Summary:
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, offbeat, independent film
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Nothing Personal (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sexy, offbeat, art house, intelligent, sincere
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Blue Lips (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six people's lives come together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Frost (2009)
Plot Summary:
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, bleak, psychological
Similar in 82%
The Other Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic, romantic drama, bleak, gloomy
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Scorn (2011)
Plot Summary:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, contemplative
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Kings (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever. However, by the end, the friends split up for good, going their separate ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Early One Morning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, tense, bleak, realistic, non-linear, gloomy
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The Hawk Is Dying (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer (Giamatti) attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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A Doll's House (1973)
Plot Summary:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, sincere, clever, independent film, period drama
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Lost Song (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the young woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, sentimental, bleak, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, tragic ending
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Exit: A personal history (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide. The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, surreal, gloomy
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Inside (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, contemplative, art house, captivating, existential
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Watchtower (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Angel's Fall (2004)
Plot Summary:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not interested in Mustafa who is younger than Zeynep, but she is not indifferent to him. While Zeynep is trying to make a bonfire of bad situation, Selçuk, Budak Akalin who lives on the other side of city is a voice technician. He feels guilty after his wife's death. The suitcase which has his wife's dresses changes the Zeynep's destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, touching, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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L'Immortelle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic
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The Moustache (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, mindfuck, cerebral, mind bending, meditative, serious, disturbing, art house, mind twisting
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A Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is entirely opened to the nature that surrounds him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father and their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. A stranger arrives, a young man barely older that Alexi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, emotional, stylized, contemplative, disturbing, controversial, art house, bleak, serious
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The Sea (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, non-linear, psychological, captivating, teen, serious, gloomy
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Winter in the Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching for is his own uncertain identity and a glimpse of salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, offbeat, gloomy, independent film, neo western
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The Quiet Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy
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The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
Plot Summary:
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Sweden, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Plot Summary:
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, bleak, heartbreaking, emotional, disturbing, stylized, independent film