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Plot Summary:
Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, saga, visually appealing
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Night of the Kings (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, social
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Bimbisara (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bimbisara is a ruthless emperor of Trigarala in 500 BC. In unexpected circumstances, Bimbisara travels in time and reaches the current day not knowing that a power-thirsty doctor Subramanya Sastry and Kethu are already waiting for him to come. Bimbisara has to deal with modern day hustle and bustle.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: dramatic, serious, captivating, harsh
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Black Fox: Age of the Ninja (2019)
Plot Summary:
The era when Samurai and Ninja existed in Japan. Rikka Isurugi was born and raised in a Ninja clan secluded from society. She soon meets Miya, a girl with a mysterious power, who is found lost in the mountains. As Rikka is concerned that someone is pursuing Miya, she also asks the head the of Isurugi Ninja Clan for permission to avenger her father's death. Soon Rikka faces danger with the attack of the Negoro group but….
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Rock My Heart (2017)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing
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The Nights Belong to Monsters (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sol, a 17-year-old teenager, moves with her mother to the Gonzalo's home, the actual mother's boyfriend. In this town, where from the beginning Sol only finds hostility, she must face bullying from her schoolmates and Gonzalo's harassment. While wandering the streets trying to find a way out, Sol meet a mysterious and magical female dog with whom she establish a symbiotic relationship. It be this dog, the one that violently and surprisingly, always appear to defend Sol until the last consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Brightness (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mali, France, Burkina Faso, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, light
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Land of Legends (2022)
Plot Summary:
The history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Muscovy and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: epic, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, dark
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Der Turm (2012)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from an award-winning best-selling book by Uwe Tellkamp, 'The Tower' depicts a higher class family’s struggles during crumbling communist rule in 1980’s East Germany. It illustrates the weaknesses and pending downfall of the German communist state through an intimate portrayal of one family's struggles, dreams and decisions. Run-ins with East Germany’s Secret Police reveal the cracks in both the police state and family loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fog (2010)
Plot Summary:
Present time. A squad of young soldiers of the Russian army during the march-throw splits from the main group. In order to save time, they decide to cut the path, but get into the strange fog, which transfers them to the past, right into the World War the Second. Boys, who saw fight only in the movies, and imagined it on the training field, get into the heart of the real WAR. Real courage, real fear, real love and hate, and real DEATH. No time to ask questions. Survive and fight for your country!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Stronghold (2017)
Plot Summary:
A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, atmospheric
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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (2018)
Plot Summary:
A small town-teen predicts his friend’s death with startling accuracy and is labelled the “Prophet of Death.” One thing he didn’t see coming? Falling in love - with his best friend’s girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2012, Atsuya (Ryosuke Yamada) and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Beautiful Fantasy of Final Purpose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, independent film, student film
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6A (2016)
Plot Summary:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of bullying. The parents are mainly concerned with defending their own children. They throw around neurotic accusations and make untenable demands. Using a camera which itself seems to participate in the discussion, scene after scene is dissected with refreshing malice and a sense for the dark side of human nature. Desperate attempts to resolve things unleash an avalanche of other problems. It takes a long time before Denise, Bella and Mina can have their say.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, juvenile
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Valhalla - The Legend of Thor (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god's barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the gods the two children must fight to save Valhalla from the end of the world - Ragnarok.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, spiritual, esoteric
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The Shamer's Daughter 2: The Serpent Gift (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Shamer's Daughter, Dina, with the magical power of compelling people to admit their most secret shame, must save her family with her newly found father. But he is a Blackmaster, with the power to make people see and believe things that aren't true, so Dina must deal with having inherited this horrible power, while forging a relationship with a father she fears and mistrusts.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, Czech Republic
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, suspense, stylized
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Emerald Green (2016)
Plot Summary:
Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, captivating, sentimental, light, melancholic, intellectual, action adventure
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Young Adult Matters (2020)
Plot Summary:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and cruelty of the world. Nevertheless, their naivety and pureness to endure through the hardships of life will stir complex emotions that will question your judgment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Always a Witch (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young 17th-century witch time travels to the future to save the man she loves, but first must adjust to present-day Cartagena and defeat a dark rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing, period drama, urban fantasy
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Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows (2016)
Plot Summary:
A year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon, they are back home in Bremin and are struggling with everyday teenage life. Felix has high hopes for the four heroes. He wants them to push the limits of their magical ability, working as a team to become masters of the arcane. But although he's unwilling to admit it, the boys have grown apart. The boys, once in perfect magical and elemental alignment, are a tangle of rivalry and distrust. On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix discovers a magically sealed 'Book of Shadows'. Unwittingly this releases a powerful force of chaos, and the gang is reluctantly drawn into a showdown that threatens their world and all they love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, teen horror, urban fantasy
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Huldra: Lady of the Forest (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nanna lives a lonely and regimented life in Berlin. When her life crashes she receives a phone call from her long lost love, Martin, who reminds her of their carefree childhood. Martin wants her to join him for a hike in the wilderness together with some of their mutual childhood friends. One of them, Peter (The Swede), has been told of a strange hermitic hippie-like society out in the Swedish wilderness and the group set off on an adventure unaware of the fact that once they reach their destination nothing will ever be the same again. As they are drawn deeper and deeper into the forest mysterious events start to unsettle the dynamics of the group. Reality begins to shift in ways none of them could have imagined and relations between the friends become strained and volatile. They had come looking for adventure, but nothing could have prepared them for what lies in wait.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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The Monster (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, spooky, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, creepy, dark fantasy, mad
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Hammer of the Gods (2009)
Plot Summary:
Thor along with his friends travels to mysterious island seeking glory and fame. Upon arriving they encounter strange creatures and they start searching the island for answers. Meanwhile Thor keeps seeing visions for a mighty warrior and a big hammer and Freyja tells him that his visions are clues so they start searching for the hammer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, offbeat
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Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right direction as he tries to turn his life around and come to terms with his emotions. She's everything he ever wanted in a girl, except for the fact that she's gay.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, lgbt cinema, contemplative
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Before I Fall (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bad ending, suspense, teen, sweet, meditative, inspirational, intellectual, brutal, spiritual, heartbreaking
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Sapphire Blue (2014)
Plot Summary:
Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, intellectual, action adventure, entertaining
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The Shamer's Daughter (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, it is up to Dina to uncover the truth, but soon she finds herself whirled into a dangerous power struggle with her own life at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, stylized