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Plot Summary:
After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literature, Mr. Brabec went for even more famous poem Máj of K.H. Mácha, which is considered the peak of Czech romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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The Assistant (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward Minogue (Jaimz Woolvett) rob the small Bober family grocery. Minogue attacks frail Morris Bober (Armin Mueller-Stahl) because he has little money. Later, guilt sends Alpine back to the store, where he goes unrecognized and is hired by Bober as an assistant, despite the objections of Ida Bober (Joan Plowright). While Frank works the store, receiving miniscule wages, he falls for Bober's daughter, Helen (Kate Greenhouse), and Morris eventually learns who Frank really is.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Janosik: A True Story (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama, Romance, Adventure
Country: Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, crying, contemplative
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Half Past Ten (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, romantic, captivating, contemplative, talky, independent film
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The Youth Killer (1976)
Plot Summary:
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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Vanilla Flavour (2002)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not what she would wish it to be. She had previously lived with her aunt in London, and the only reason why she returned to Czechoslovakia was to look after the orphaned children of her sister. She married their father, but the rural environment is alien to her, and neither does she get on very well with her husband. A group of American soldiers arrives at the farm, having strayed away from their designated route of advance. To their great surprise, they are welcomed by a young woman who speaks fluent English, and invite her to go with them to Pilsen as an interpreter. Anne long hesitates, well aware that she attracts the affection of one of the soldiers, and herself becomes fond of him, too. She feels that the trip to Pilsen could mean an.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, captivating, disturbing, freeze frame, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Under the Skin (1996)
Plot Summary:
Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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A Tale of Love (1986)
Plot Summary:
This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and brothers. She gets up at 3 A.M. to catch the bus to go clean offices, and when she is home, she cleans and cooks for her siblings and father. In spite of this existence, she is spunky and optimistic. As she gets older, she falls in love with Sergio (Bals Roca-Rey), and he moves in with her and her family. But that relationship ends when she meets another young man, Mario (Livio Panieri). This new romance leads her away from her siblings and father and although there is no inkling of any trouble, the drudgery of her past existence catches up with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Shades of Fern (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, period drama
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Runaway Blues (1988)
Plot Summary:
Before he was crowned one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau starred in the 1989 gangster film Runaway Blues. He plays Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss Lip's place, he gets embroiled in more gang conflicts and is forced to be an informant for the police. Lam runs away to Guangzhou and Macau with Lip's mistress, causing an enraged Lip to be hot on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: heroic, poliziottesco
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Trilogy of Lust (1995)
Plot Summary:
A failed medical student running a fish farm in Hong Kong buys a new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, sexual, sexy, controversial, hot
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Cholera Street (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute. Deniz is a ganster who gives himself the nickname "Reiss" ("Chief"), tries to take control of the neighbourhood through intidimation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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Traffic Department (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, black comedy
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Too Late Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young convict named Antonis, takes a 48 hour discharge from prison. His brother wants to spent this time together, but Antonis has other plans. He meets Olia, a girl who has abandon her household and her boyfriend has pimp her. The two fall in love and the deicide to get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Profiteer (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young seminarian who can't be ordained because of a speech impediment leaves the seminary to take a job with a wealthy baroness' crippled son. The seminarian is actually what the italian title of the movie describes as an exploitative parasite ( saprofita), first bedding the baroness and consequently pushing her impotent husband to commit suicide, then taking off to Lourdes with the boy, who hopes for a miracle, and finally seducing a very devout woman who is visiting the site with her grandmother, who unexpectedly dies. Sergio Nasca's (an assistant director of Marco Bellocchio) decadent erootic drama debut.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic, compassionate, crying, gay cinema
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Ardent Summer (1973)
Plot Summary:
Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Happy End (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set during the 1999 Asian fiscal crisis Ki-Mun has lost his job and feels ashamed at having to act as domestic housekeepr for his career woman wife Bo-ra. Bo-ra feels trapped in a passionless marriage and is having an affair with a former college boyfriend. Min-ki gradually pieces together the evidence of Bo-ra's infidelity, and is devastated by what he finds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Siberia (1998)
Plot Summary:
Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Their goal is to spend the money together on a world trip and their scam is going well until they meet Lara, originally from Siberia, whom Goof becomes besotted with (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious
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Storyteller (2014)
Plot Summary:
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, non-linear, detective
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The Swimming Pool (1969)
Plot Summary:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, inspirational, retro, sexy, slasher, anthology, art house, technicolor, crime drama
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Bad Blood (1986)
Plot Summary:
A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can treat the disease has been formulated, it's been locked away in an inaccessible government building. A woman hires a man to steal the serum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychedelic, neo noir, art house, deep, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, lyrical, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Feast of July (1995)
Plot Summary:
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, tense, realistic, serious, intense, crying, weeping, psychological, romantic
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The Drummer (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Sid insults a powerful triad boss, his father sends him to Taiwan for safety. Bored and restless, he discovers a community of Zen drummers high in the hills, and joins up - a decision inspired by a pretty face that soon becomes a challenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, uplifting, serious, stylized
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Hardcore (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, stylized, erotic, controversial, art house, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Cat's Meow (2001)
Plot Summary:
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: stylized, witty, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, period piece, clever, talky, atmospheric
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, anthology, psychotronic, allegory, post modern
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Lila Says (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, artsy, non-linear, heartbreaking, art house, multicultural, sexual, psychological