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Plot Summary:
Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: San Marino
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white
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The Last Land (2016)
Plot Summary:
In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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Out (1982)
Plot Summary:
A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander.".
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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Bait (2019)
Plot Summary:
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, social, black and white, experimental
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Endorphine (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mindfuck, psychological thriller
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The Braves (2021)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and understudy in a high-profile play in Paris. Alma is keeping a secret that puts her role in jeopardy, but with the unwavering support of Margot, they will try their best to ensure that the show goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Night Train (1999)
Plot Summary:
An overweight California slob hears his brother's been killed in Tijuana and goes down to investigate. Once there he meets an odd assortment of characters, all of whom either knew his brother or in some way were involved with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy
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A Story Written with Water (1965)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Fiela's Child (1988)
Plot Summary:
The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Las Meninas (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, non-linear, independent film, psychedelic, art house
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Tusk (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house
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Chelsea Girls (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, art film, cult classic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Few of Us (1996)
Plot Summary:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, avant garde, silent, silent film
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Walden: Life in The Woods (2017)
Plot Summary:
A radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic, interlacing three stories about the trappings of 21st century life and those who dream dangerously of escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Eden and After (1970)
Plot Summary:
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, enigmatic, experimental, surreal, controversial, avant garde, weird
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The Adversary (1970)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, independent film, surreal, suspense
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Roma (2018)
Plot Summary:
A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: black and white, touching, art film, inspirational, political, sad, art house, thought provoking, intellectual, social
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Heart of Glass (1976)
Plot Summary:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, psychological, serious
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)
Plot Summary:
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, mind bending, experimental, controversial, avant garde, art house, psychotronic, deep
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The Texture of Falling (2018)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a filmmaker, pianist, painter, and architect collide and intertwine in a multilayered tale of love, art, violence, and power dynamics that ultimately questions, what is real?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sexy, art house, erotic, mind bending
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From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns' married life, and dream sequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, black and white, suspense thriller, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: art house, experimental, existential, surreal, contemplative, depressing, poetic, philosophical, artsy, anthology
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The Silence (1963)
Plot Summary:
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, sexual, erotic, philosophical, atmospheric, surreal, cerebral, disturbing, psychological
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, art house, surreal, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual
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Nostalgia (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative, poetic, black and white, visual, mind twisting, emotional
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Plot Summary:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, existential, black and white, art house, experimental
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Winter Light (1963)
Plot Summary:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, emotional, black and white, cerebral, christian film, spiritual, existential
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Plot Summary:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious, surreal, cerebral, spiritual, existential, atmospheric
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The Town (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, art house, black and white, slow cinema, independent film
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Plot Summary:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, stylized, black and white, atmospheric, postmodern, visual