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Plot Summary:
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, weird
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3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to convince the high school girl to quit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
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Toro (2015)
Plot Summary:
Friends Toro and Victor struggle with drug addiction and male prostitution in a hostile environment. When they lose all their money, their longstanding friendship is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Required Field (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer 'NO1KNOWS' managed to elude the police for years. In fact they didn't even know he existed until, by chance, his video and audio recordings were found. By examining the recordings police were able to solve a number of murders around the world - although many men featured in the recordings were never found and it is unclear how many other victims there were since most of the video and audio recordings were destroyed (presumedly by NO1KNOWS himself).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dog Days (2016)
Plot Summary:
Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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David & Kamal (2011)
Plot Summary:
This story is about a 9 year old American Jewish boy, David, and Kamal, also a 9 year old and a poor street urchin of Arab descent selling postcards to tourist in the stone enclosed Old City of Jerusalem. At a first glance, Kamal seems bright and energetic but in reality, he's suffering under the tyrannical presence of his grandfather who oversees the living of his family, his mother and two sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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Park Hwa-young (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hwa-young is an 18-year-old student living alone. Her friends call her “mom” and use her house as their place to hang out, but don’t really include her in their clique. Hwa-young pays particular attention to one of the friends, Mijeong.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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This Summer Feeling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, sad, disturbing, contemplative
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Easy Land (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Bopem (2015)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Twisting Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Africa
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Diamond Island (2016)
Plot Summary:
Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who went missing five years earlier. Solei introduces him into an exciting world, that of an urban and wealthy youth, its girls, nights and illusions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Cambodia, France, Germany, Qatar, Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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6A (2016)
Plot Summary:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of bullying. The parents are mainly concerned with defending their own children. They throw around neurotic accusations and make untenable demands. Using a camera which itself seems to participate in the discussion, scene after scene is dissected with refreshing malice and a sense for the dark side of human nature. Desperate attempts to resolve things unleash an avalanche of other problems. It takes a long time before Denise, Bella and Mina can have their say.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, juvenile
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Wilderness: Part Two (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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Invisible (2017)
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Ely is 17 years old. After school, she works few hours at a pet shop. When Ely learns that she is pregnant, her inner world explodes even though she tries to go on with her daily routine as if nothing was different. She is afraid and upset, and she knows that, whatever she decides to do, there is no turning back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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I Promise You Anarchy (2015)
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Miguel and Johnny know each other since childhood. They are dedicated to skate and have fun. To earn easy money and continue skating, they sell their own blood to a clandestine contact in a hospital. The activity becomes business until a large transaction is not as they imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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The War Within (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant, serious, realistic
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Psycho BFF (2019)
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When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away together. Renee embarks on a desperate search for her daughter, before she's gone for good.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dreamchild (2020)
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François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Insecure (2014)
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Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, tense, touching, serious
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Tag (2015)
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Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his blood brother Jacob. Billy and Rae are boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the dismay of Jacob who has always loved Rae from afar. Billy's philosophy of life, and how that interfaces with having a deadly virus, comes to a head when Billy and Jacob compete in a very unique game of "Tag", with the future of Rae and "the family" dependent upon the outcome.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, grindhouse, independent film
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The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right direction as he tries to turn his life around and come to terms with his emotions. She's everything he ever wanted in a girl, except for the fact that she's gay.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, lgbt cinema, contemplative
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy
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Do it Right (2017)
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Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, semi autobiographical
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Twin Flower (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, sentimental, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Hopefuls (2015)
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Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Miriam Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Juze (2017)
Plot Summary:
Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Chicken (2015)
Plot Summary:
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already precarious living conditions get even worse. Then a chance meeting with the new landowner's daughter, 17 year old ANNABEL (Yasmin Paige), leaves RICHARD besotted; whilst POLLY befriends the guys who run a seedy traveling fair. Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as Polly's abusive behavior worsens, family secrets are revealed, and he is torn between loyalty to his brother and his first true friend in ANNABEL. For better or worse, Richards life is about to change forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Stuff (2015)
Plot Summary:
Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film, queer cinema