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Plot Summary:
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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David (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mentally handicapped young man decides to leave the security of his family in order to search the purpose of his existence; whether it is freedom, sexual experience or death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The House by the Sea (2017)
Plot Summary:
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Night Games (1966)
Plot Summary:
Jan (Keve Hjelm) fights impotence (literal and symbolic) and anguished childhood memories in a decadent Swedish castle where risqué parties and daring scenes defy 1960s' movie censorship, reaffirming the ground-breaking role of Swedish films in helping advance adult, sexually concerned themes in international cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, atmospheric, experimental, controversial, art house, expressionism, erotic drama
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The Game Is Over (1966)
Plot Summary:
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Home (2016)
Plot Summary:
The struggle between two generations and its thin line between trust, friendship and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, erotic
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Martha... Martha (2001)
Plot Summary:
Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man (Yann Andrea) and his sister (Bulle Ogier) meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995)
Plot Summary:
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Oedipus Rex (1967)
Plot Summary:
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Morocco
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, spiritual, epic, neorealism, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious
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To Mathieu (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, rough
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The Miracle (1991)
Plot Summary:
The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, psychological, erotic, independent film
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Cities of the Plain (2000)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Robert Kramer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: experimental, touching, serious, captivating
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Early One Morning (2011)
Plot Summary:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, tense, bleak, realistic, non-linear, gloomy
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Nenette and Boni (1996)
Plot Summary:
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative, serious, realistic, erotic, light, thought provoking
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My Son (2006)
Plot Summary:
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, gloomy
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Consent (2010)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, erotic, poignant, sexual, crying, sexy
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Time of Wickedness (1985)
Plot Summary:
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Il fascino sottile del peccato (1987)
Plot Summary:
The young widow Arianna (Alexandra Delli Colli) has recently married to a businessman Aurelio (Vito Fornari). She brings her children, Carlotta (Claudia Cavalcanti) and Gustavo (Alfredo Galloto) the new family. Carlotta has a relationship with Henry, but is attracted by the new stepfather and seduces him. Gustavo, however, prefer a gay relationship with Mario. At this point Arianna decides to introduce, by herself, her son the taste of a woman does the same to Mario in front of his son. Of the whole situation took advantage of two young blackmailers: Mario and Enrico.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Too Close to Our Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, no music
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak, sexy, explicit, realistic, crying, independent film
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Chaleurs (1971)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story; Philippe (Patrice Pascal) has sex with their maid. But he also has incestuous desire for his mother, Nadia (Nicole Avril). His father also has sex with maid.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Grand Jeté (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Privates Lives (2001)
Plot Summary:
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic
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Seaside (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, gloomy
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Normal (2007)
Plot Summary:
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, erotic, gloomy, sexual, sexy, hot
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Savage Grace (2007)
Plot Summary:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, erotic, emotional, controversial, talky, psychological, intense, sincere, serious
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Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond finds distraction in a neighborhood girl, Toni Peck. But, as Susan begins relying on her son for both physical and emotional needs, Raymond starts developing disturbing and unwanted new yearnings.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, dark comedy, sexy, disturbing, controversial, psychological, romantic, cult classic, teen
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Ken Park (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit, sexy, realistic, serious, independent film, erotic
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Gemini (2005)
Plot Summary:
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, psychological, depressing, sad, eros, erotic
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Pingpong (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film shows the apparently intact world of a middle class family, whose harmonious facade crumbles due to the unexpected visit of their relative Paul, a young man of 16 years. Paul arrives looking for love and support after the suicide of his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, gloomy