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Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Animation, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, anime
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The Motel Life (2012)
Plot Summary:
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, suspense, psychological, realistic, rough, serious, tense, captivating, mumblecore, adult animation
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The Rebirth of Buddha (2009)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Sayako Amanokawa aspires to become a journalist, just like Kanemoto, an elite newspaper writer she looks up to. But Kanemoto, shamed from an erroneous report about a corruption scandal, jumps in front of a train and commits suicide. Since that incident, Sayako suddenly becomes able to see spirits and almost loses her life. However, from that near-fatal incident she experiences something extraordinary. The journalist inside her stirred, she embarks to find out about the truth. But the forces that stand in her way turn out to be much formidable than she ever imagined. [from AnimeNewsNetwork].
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, spiritual, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, esoteric
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Black Rock Shooter (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of two girls bound in friendship, as well as Black Rock Star's struggle unfolding in another world. But when the two worlds come together... what will happen?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, exciting, captivating, colorful, yuri, colourful
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Princess (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, anime, cult classic, crying, 2d animation
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The Labyrinth of Grisaia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yuuji makes the unexpected decision to pursue promotion within the institution he works for. He meets with JB to discuss the documents he submitted for review as a part of the promotion process, documents pertaining to his own past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, adult animation
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Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Future (2015)
Plot Summary:
The second part of a two-part movie. The story takes place one year after the TV series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, mecha
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The King of Pigs (2011)
Plot Summary:
After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyeong-Min kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Seok. Jong-Seok now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years they meet. Kyeong-Min and Jong-Seok both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, adult animation, disturbing, depressing, crying, 2d animation
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Tehran Taboo (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, disturbing, social, adult animation, art house
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Golgo 13: Queen Bee (1998)
Plot Summary:
Based on Takao Saito's graphic novel, Golgo 13 is Japan's most celebrated and notorious assassin, and a man as adept with a rifle as he is with the ladies. He meets his match here in Queen Bee, the leader of a South American liberation army, whom he must kill before she can assassinate a popular presidential candidate. However, once Golgo 13 penetrates the Queen's hive, he realizes that the machinations behind the planned assassination are more complex than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, mecha, rough, realistic, surprise ending
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Kite Liberator (2007)
Plot Summary:
Years after the events that transpired in Kite, Sawa's whereabouts are a mystery. During this time, rumors of a new killer have begun to circulate the city. They call her the Angel of Death, an unfeeling assassin who eliminates her targets with grace and precision, leaving only a flurry of feathers as her calling card. What the public is unaware of is the fact that this notorious hitman is a actually a polite young lady named Monaka. Like her spiritual predecessor, Monaka has lost most of her family, and her father's duty as an astronaut keeps hims practically worlds apart. However, they are close despite the physical distances and Orudo promised his daughter that he would return. Until then, daily life for the timid and somewhat clumsy Monaka involves mostly school and her part time job as a waitress, but her nature completely changes once she receives an assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, psychological, suspenseful, bloody, adult animation, serious
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Black Jack: The Movie (1996)
Plot Summary:
Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, psychological, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (2012)
Plot Summary:
Third film of the Mardock Scramble series. Rune Balot goes to a casino connected to the October corporation to try to wrap up her case once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, bleak, humorous, cyberpunk anime
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Alois Nebel (2011)
Plot Summary:
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, adult animation, atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, noir, experimental, claymation, anime
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The Fake (2013)
Plot Summary:
A convict returns to his home town to torturing again his family and face his neighbors trying to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, realistic, thought provoking, adult animation, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Past (2015)
Plot Summary:
The first part of a two-part movie. The story is a recap of the TV series.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the defeat of the spiral king, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, ecchi, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a pair of towers in Tokyo are being prepared for their grand opening, there is a series of murders of people connected to the towers. Conan suspects that the mysterious Syndicate may also be involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, 2d animation
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Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fumika and Kanaka are mail carriers- but not the typical kind. For one, Kanaka is a talking staff and for two, Fumika delivers shigofumi: letters from the dead addressed to the living. These letters are a final, true, communication derived from hate, hope, and love. The story unfolds following this pair and their uncommon job as well as Fumika's unique 'situation'.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st (2010)
Plot Summary:
Takamachi Nanoha is a normal third-grader who feels a little useless and out-of-place with no purpose. Then one day, she saves a ferret, who turns out to be a mage from another planet who came to this planet to search for the jewel seeds. Nanoha agrees to help, but this task gets complicated when another girl arrives to steal them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing, yuri
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Boogie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the comic "Boogie, el aceitoso".In a city where crime rules the streets, Boogie shows up. only to make things brutally worse. A hired thug, with a blatant disregard for human life – especially those that are less fortunate, and an unmatched lack of respect for women, Boogie is the ultimate anti-hero. Boogie is an action-packed, jaw-dropping, animated feature, exploding with sadistic humour,violence and non-stop bullets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, noir, anime, rough, humorous
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Felidae (1994)
Plot Summary:
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, neo noir, detective, slasher, tense, offbeat, serious, surreal, psychological
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Kokkoku, Moment by Moment (2018)
Plot Summary:
In order to save her brother and nephew who have been kidnapped by a mysterious religious group known as the Genuine Love Society, Juri and her family cast a spell using a stone hidden by her grandfather to enter the world of stopped time known as Stasis. However, when they infiltrate the kidnapper's base, they're met by other people who can also move about freely. With grotesque creatures lurking about, will they be able to escape the parallel world and return to their normal lives?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, super sentai, ecchi
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, psychological, exciting, captivating, brutal, romantic
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, rough, suspenseful, touching
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic, captivating, tense, psychological, cyber
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Technotise: Edit & I (2009)
Plot Summary:
Technotise: Edit & I is a Serbian animated feature film. The plot is set in 2074 in Belgrade. The main character is Edit Stefanović, a female psychology student who, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help pass the exam. Edit also has a job at a scientific and social research company, in taking care of Abel Mustafov, an autistic math genius who discovered a formula that connects all forces in the world, but no computer was able to calculate it fully without becoming self aware and shutting down immediately after that. After Edit sees the formula graph, the chip calculates the formula, able to "survive" thanks to its connection to Edit, develops a parallel personality and affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: adult animation, cyber, anime, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, experimental, surreal, claymation
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Armitage III: Dual Matrix (2001)
Plot Summary:
Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cyber, adult anime, surprise ending, computer animated, futuristic, ecchi
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Watership Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad, bleak, dark, cult classic, anime, tense
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Perfect Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, tense, realistic, disturbing
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. A quest for a killer that becomes a mind bending search for the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, anime, philosophical, cyber, atmospheric, enigmatic, surreal, psychological, bleak, serious