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Plot Summary:
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Praying the Hours (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Traveling Man is hit by a car. Over the 24 hours that it takes to cross over from this life into the next, he visits with each of eight friends. By seeing ordinary life from this view, he realizes that eternity is not something that happens to you after you die, but is a river that flows under the surface of ordinary life.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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A Box for Rob (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories. But things only get worse when he's suspected of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, twisted
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Tikkun (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haim-Aaron is a bright, ultra-orthodox religious scholar living in Jerusalem. His talents and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, but his father takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, Haim-Aaron comes back to life. After the accident, try as he might, Haim-Aaron remains apathetic to his studies. He feels overwhelmed by a sudden awakening of his body and suspects this is God testing him. He wonders if he should stray from the prescribed path and find a way to rekindle his faith... The title means "Rectify" in Hebrew; nevertheless the movie is called Tikkun in the English-speaking world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird, no music
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Illusion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in Philippine post-American colonialist era, where the American influence was still apparent, Ilusyon tells the story of Miguel, a young man from the countryside, who decides to visit his father, Pablo, a Modernist painter in Manila. Upon his arrival, he discovers that his father has decided to leave for the province but he opted to stay in Manila for a vacation. One day, he meets Stella, a nude model originally scheduled to pose for Miguel's father. Struck by her beauty, Miguel does the unthinkable - he pretends to be his father the painter. Developing a relationship based on a lie, things turn for the worse as Stella begets a strange skin disease that turns off Miguel. Surrounded by strange characters - a talking cow, a talkative mailman and a nosy landlady - Miguel is driven into a frenzy realization about beauty, lust, love and being true to oneself. An ambiguous ending underlines the surreal tone of the film.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
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The Bricklayers (1976)
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When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min
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The Rook (1994)
Plot Summary:
Martin Donovan plays John Abbott, a church investigator looking into a murder. The world is similar to England in the mid to late 1800s but with odd touches such as primitive computers etc. The sets are similar to Brazil, as is the look of a lot of the movie although much more reserved and somewhat more sinister. The movie revolves around a man, Abbott, who starts supremely self confident but eventually has to deal with his own failings and flaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Time of Miracles (1989)
Plot Summary:
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Yugoslavia, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Oceania (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers deal with their shattered family-life in a small California coastal town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: bleak, independent film, student film
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A Dance in the Rain (1961)
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Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , who is considerably older, a fact that Peter is quick to point out. As an aging actress, struggling for parts in her local theatre, she oozes insecurity and breathes uncertainty. Together, they spend their time in the local restaurant, smoking, drinking and trading verbal blows. "I bet you'll just end up a drunk," she tells Peter each time. Peter just grins and tells her how old she looks. Compounded by a thankless director who soon shows her the door, Marusa finds her identity being squeezed harder and harder against the wall. To escape, Peter and Marusa dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969)
Plot Summary:
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
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The Convent (1995)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, contemplative, atmospheric, sexy, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
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Never Again a Tomorrow (2017)
Plot Summary:
The slightly self-indulgent artist Thorvald collapses during an interview made in celebration of his 80th birthday and dies shortly after. But in spite of his death Thorvald can still follow those left behind. From a distance, and for better or worse, he sees with his own eyes the imprint he has left on his family and especially his son Vincent, who had a strained relationship with his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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14 Days with Victor (2010)
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Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star who wants to return to the ring. Anna is losing his father, after a physically devastating disease. Despite his youth, Victor lead the trio into a situation with unpredictable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sadistic
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A Painting Lesson (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: existential
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Landscape with a Woman (1989)
Plot Summary:
A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger is sleeping with their wives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Crime Delicado (2005)
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Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min
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A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)
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Early morning in the oat fields of Carranco, Ramón runs into the dead body of his secret teenage love Adela. After he covers her naked body with his shirt, the gossip in town is that Ramón's girlfriend is been found murdered. Meanwhile, the Gitano (the gypsy) has left Carranco after a night of love and sex with Gabriela, suddenly interrupted by a flash light of an unknown bearer. That night at the local bar, where Justino, the town sheriff and other regular costumers discuss what should be done, La Amistad, pointing his flashlight to them shouts "el gitano murdered the girl". Marcelino, a bitter old man pushes Ramón to avenge his "girlfriend"'s murder. Now Ramón will have to prove to the people in his town that he's now a man or leave the town in shame.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 98 min
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The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
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Directed by Moshé Mizrahi.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Fatal Woman (1991)
Plot Summary:
A California forest ranger (Colin Firth) seeks his bride (Lisa Zane) and discovers, with his artist friend (Billy Zane), her dark sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Exit Plan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, dark, psychological, disturbing, suspense, surreal, weird
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The Nothing (2011)
Plot Summary:
The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, underground film, psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film, minimal cast, contemplative
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The Castle (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)
Plot Summary:
Kulwant Rai's horse carriage runs over a child, and as a result, she loses her vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
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The Strait Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating
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The Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
Painter Lorenzo's life spirals out of control as he fears his wife is trying to isolate him from their infant son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: non-linear, crying, interesting
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Hokusai (2020)
Plot Summary:
The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
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Design of Death (2012)
Plot Summary:
The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
Plot Summary:
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, mindfuck, philosophical, black and white, cult classic, atmospheric
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Chiwawa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative