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Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, manga
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House Of Himiko (2005)
Plot Summary:
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Empty Rooms (2001)
Plot Summary:
"Empty Room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around the city parks. Highly stylised and with a film noir feel, Empty Room is a fine example of how Japanese Pink cinema has developed into a genre all of its own." "A highly beautiful and erotic piece of art…with ‘Empty Room’, Pink Cinema has finally come of age.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father sees her with new eyes and starts to distance himself from her. Lili feels rejected from her father and reacts with aggression and power games.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, queer cinema
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Critical Point (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aline with Valentín. Miroslava with Sergio. Two couples. Two different worlds. One only destiny. Reflected upon one another, their lives intertwine in everyday's story. A story full of conflict and passion, triumph and failure. Thus, their lives get chained in beginnings and endings. For them, there's a lot to choose, a lot to start and a lot to finish. Thus, Aline and Miroslava punctuate their life with a period, and a new paragraph.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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The Secret Life of Happy People (2006)
Plot Summary:
Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses études en architecture avec succès, le jeune homme rencontrera Audrey, une belle ténébreuse qui lui donnera des ailes. Évidemment, le bonheur n'est jamais simple et la vie peut être parfois cruelle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Space Between (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When tragedy strikes, the only glimmer of joy arrives in the form of Olivia, a spirited Australian chasing her dream of working in design while on a family mission in Udine. Against the stunning vineyards, rugged mountains and blue Adriatic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, these two very different people find themselves at a crossroads that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Sex Life of Plants (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a head injury makes a dimwit stranger out Barbara's beloved Guille, she ceases to feel desire for him. Nearing 35, and longing for motherhood, she settles with a new partner, while the memory of lost love harrows her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Father's Acre (2009)
Plot Summary:
Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son (Tamas Ravasz), now in his late teens, was left to fend for himself and tend the family farm on his own after his dad went away, and the youngster blames his father for his mother's untimely death. The father wants to mend his relationship with his son, but the young man makes no secret of his contempt for his dad, and only grudgingly allows him back on the farm.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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All Is Well (2019)
Plot Summary:
Everything falls apart after the death of the Su family matriarch and after ‘suffering’ for so long under his wife, the weak and selfish Su Daqiang begins to meddle in his children’s lives and often asks them to meet the most unreasonable requests.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Yeah, That's How It Is (2016)
Plot Summary:
This drama is about a story of a big family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Four Windows (2006)
Plot Summary:
They want to get away from each other, but they clasp each other even more firmly. They seek to save appearances at all force. The more they laugh, the quieter it gets around them. The cracks in the family picture widen until an inescapable secret reveals itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Second Avenue (2007)
Plot Summary:
Andra Avenyn was a Swedish drama series and soap opera, produced by SVT and broadcast from 2007 to 2010.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera
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A Family Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four people born on the same day. All four are about to live the most important day of their lives. While Cem is preparing to celebrate his birthday with his wife, Reyhan, Reyhan's birth pains begin. Even though there is a risky birth, they believe that everything will go well until the last moment and that they will take their babies. But life has a different plan for them. For five years, Berk has been the advertising face of a big brand. He finally gets a chance to play in a good movie, but can't get permission from his producer. Now there is an important way of separation. Either everything will continue as before, or Berk will choose the freedom and pay the price. Living in peace with his wife and children, Mahur has a secret. He's been trying to find his biological father for a while. He will get the good news on his birthday. But the fact that he meets his father when he meets will greatly disappoint him. Beste, who has been in trouble with her kilos since her childhood, makes a new decision on her thirty-fifth birthday. To date, life has not gone as hoped and it is time to take on the reins. She will weaken at any cost. Nothing can hold her in the way. No matter what happens to these five people, there is something they know; Beauty will save the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Making Family (2016)
Plot Summary:
An independent career woman who wants a family without a husband and a man who has no interest in a family of his own, one day go through something unexpected and become a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Memories of Summer (2016)
Plot Summary:
The late 1970s. It's summer in a small provincial town. Twelve-year-old Piotrek has a very strong bond with his mother. While his father is away, his mother starts going out almost every night. Their simple and clear relationship starts to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Animal's Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Seducción (aka Secreto De Amor) (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mexican feature film.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hanging Garden (2005)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere, poignant
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Plot Summary:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Resisting Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, immersed in her music, lets life slip her by like a strange melody. Adolescent Nadia has only one interest in life: to seek new experiences. Aurelia starts to lose her sensibility to pain, and the family relationships become so alienated that they begin to disintegrate like the house they live in.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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Changeover (2016)
Plot Summary:
A girl grieving the horrific loss of her parents moves in with relatives, who try their best to welcome her into the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Interlude (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Breadcrumbs (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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We Only Know So Much (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Not by Bread Alone (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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La casa delle donne (2003)
Plot Summary:
It all begins in 1919 in the countryside surrounding Bari, Apulia. From a rich farmer and his three concubines(two of them the sisters of his handyman and the third his maid) a complicated family is formed, in which paternity and maternity is occasionally uncertain. Twenty years later, the eldest of the group weds and flees to Bari. The rest of the relatives move - not only to the same city - but into the same building. Furthermore, the "tribe" expands with the addition of the in-laws of the first-born.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Pharisee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seung-gi has been living under a strict father, blaming himself everytime when a natural but uncontrollable desire surges from inside of him. However, because he can't spurt that desire in reality, every night Seung-gi shares passionate love with a mystery woman in his dreams. He meets Eun-ji ("Viki") a senior from school and gets provoked by her as well as Soo-jeong who he's had a crush on forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy, erotic
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See You in Valhalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing