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Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: absurd, surreal, suspenseful, thought provoking, enigmatic, visual, comedy drama, twist ending, art house, weird
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Memoria (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, avant garde, stylized, art house
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Black Night (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, deep, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, weird
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Real (2013)
Plot Summary:
Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, surreal, mind bending, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, gloomy, manga
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Hard to Be a God (1989)
Plot Summary:
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, France, Soviet Union, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, disturbing, grotesque, weird, eighties
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Target (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Vacuum (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amidst the preparations for her 35th wedding anniversary, Meredith is surprised by the discovery that she is HIV-positive. Only her husband André could have been the carrier of the virus.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Plot Summary:
Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, spiritual, offbeat, humorous, contemplative
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Oasis (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, apocalyptic
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After Yang (2021)
Plot Summary:
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: melancholic, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, philosophical, underground film, cerebral, cult classic, visually stunning, futuristic, independent film
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Red Cockroaches (2003)
Plot Summary:
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Cuba
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surreal, futuristic, offbeat, independent film, psychological, mind bending, thought provoking
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High Moon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, surreal, offbeat
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The White King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blueprint (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, sincere
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The Land of Hope (2012)
Plot Summary:
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Taiwan, UK, Germany
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, road movie, crying
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The Aerial (2007)
Plot Summary:
La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of hands typing on a typewriter. The denizens of a nameless city "in the year XX" have lost their voices. People communicate by mouthing out words that are spelled mid-air. The only person who has kept the use of her voice is La Voz ("the voice"), a singer working for the sole TV channel broadcast in the city, run by Mr. TV, who desires La Voz. La Voz wears a hood over her head that hides away her face. She has a son called Tomás, an eyeless little kid who nonetheless also has a voice (although this is kept a secret). Tomás lives next door to Ana, whom he one day befriends after a letter addressed to his house is erroneously delivered to hers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, silent, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, expressionism, black and white, experimental, retro, mind bending
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The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
Plot Summary:
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, weird, eighties, french noir
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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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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The Whore's Son (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, stylized, erotic, realistic, gloomy
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Malevil (1981)
Plot Summary:
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, eighties
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Visioneers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Visioneer George Washington Winsterhammerman lives a comfortable but monotonous life in this slightly futuristic black comedy. When people start exploding from stress and George is showing early symptoms, he's forced to examine his life. Taking a look at his nice job, his sexless marriage and his resistance to life coaching, George reconsiders the philosophy of happiness through mindless activity.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, enigmatic, melancholic, futuristic, not serious, humorous, satirical, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking
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Naked Lunch (1991)
Plot Summary:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical, mindfuck, atmospheric, confusing, controversial, cult classic
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized, clever, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological
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High-Rise (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, surreal, absurd, futuristic, art house, brutal, artsy, stylized, cerebral
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, independent film, cult classic, erotic, meditative, disturbing, serious, art house
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Solaris (1972)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, mind bending, enigmatic, psychedelic, intellectual, futuristic, surreal, psychological
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Melancholia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, art house, philosophical, apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, art film
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Brazil (1985)
Plot Summary:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, psychological, dark comedy, cerebral, atmospheric, disturbing, thought provoking, mindfuck, black comedy
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Plot Summary:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, atmospheric, psychological, political, bleak, apocalyptic, cult classic, suspenseful, independent film