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Plot Summary:
Brittany, France, 1980s. A group of friends, fed up with the boring country life and eager for excitement, create a radio station.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social
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The Prayer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, captivating, disturbing, social, therapeutic
Similar in 78%
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Overflow (2011)
Plot Summary:
Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, social, disturbing
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Neither Hero Nor Traitor (2020)
Plot Summary:
Matías dreams of going to study music in Spain. He must convince his girlfriend to join him later and deal with his father's opposition. But the board changes completely when the Falklands war is declared and he is called to fight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Juniper (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful
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Argentine Soldier Only Known by God (2016)
Plot Summary:
Argentine Soldier Only Known to God is a war fiction feature film, focused on the human drama of three young men from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places are forever transformed by the Malvinas War.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Argentina
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Yung (2018)
Plot Summary:
This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting deeper and deeper into a cycle of addiction. Joy muses about love when she doesn't happen to be selling drugs. And Abbie, 16, dreams of escaping to Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, sad, disturbing, contemplative
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The Good Son (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants to phone his grandmother in Nord-pas-de-Calais, one thing leads to another and suddenly the whole family finds themselves in a holiday in northern France. For Liliane it means a reunion with her mother, for Luc and Paul the reunion with their grandmother. And then someday on the beach Luc gets to know Manu(el) who teaches him lessons in love, life, fun, teenagerhood and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Ceasefire (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, disturbing, melancholic
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3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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With the Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take the step towards total independence, and start producing their own electricity. The arrival of Samuel, who comes to install a wind turbine, deeply troubles Pauline, upsetting their relationship and their values.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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The Astronot (2018)
Plot Summary:
It was 1969 and America was embarking on the biggest adventure known to man - a voyage to the moon. Daniel too was pursuing the unknown; leaving the path of isolation he had traveled for so many years to embrace the love of another. The only question was would he be able maintain that road to glory or would he veer off course never to be seen again.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Peaceful (2021)
Plot Summary:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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All My Loving (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Silent Revolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's 1956. During a visit to a cinema in West Berlin, East German high school pupils Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, one of the GDR’s flagship workers’ settlements, they have the idea of holding a minute’s silence in class for the victims of the Hungarian struggle for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, political, social, crying, banned
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Neon Bull (2015)
Plot Summary:
Iremar is part of a rodeo troupe that tours the Brazilian northeast. His task is to send bulls into the arena. Intensely exciting physical scenes alternate with contemplative episodes that sketch a painterly portrait of the members of the troupe. Sublime images, which alternate with a less idyllic reality: the hard work amidst the cows. Jointly they form a fabulous choreography, against the background of a rapidly changing society.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexual, eros, sensual, crying, sexy
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4 Kings (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a psychiatric ward. The utterly different adolescents not only have to adjust to one another, but also have to confront themselves in exhausting therapy sessions. Yet thanks to the unorthodox psychiatrist Dr. Wolf, the sessions take a turn for the unexpected - and the four experience a Christmas which they will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Toilet (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Mystery of Her (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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West Coast (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the teasing and contempt of their fellow classmates. So when Fle-O, the leader of this merry gang, learns that he has to leave his town and his friends at the end of the year, his whole world falls apart leaving him vulnerable when the most popular kid in school decides to make fun of them in front of everyone. Humiliated, our protagonists decide to take their revenge through one last expedition together that will lead them further than they would have imagined. Through incongruous situations and successive meetings, they will grow and learn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Last Tree (2019)
Plot Summary:
Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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She Walks (2015)
Plot Summary:
An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Seventeen (2019)
Plot Summary:
To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation process, leaving Ava to face consequences both at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy
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All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mariana (15) is annoyingly in love with the school's badboy, Ali2, but he is occupied with the only blonde in Romsås.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Giant (2017)
Plot Summary:
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
Plot Summary:
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing