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Plot Summary:
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, art house
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Guerra de Idolos (2017)
Plot Summary:
This series focuses on the growing fortunes of the Solar family and their famous son, and explores the drama of the music world from all angles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Sukitomo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama following a young boxer Tomokazu and his relationship with his best friend Yoshiko and sister Misao as while he's training for an important match. His sister and friend have always been there for him, supporting him, but Tomokazu is about to find out that not everything is as simple as it may seem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Man Who Loves (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Entanglement (2021)
Plot Summary:
A late-night DJ at the hottest radio station in Atlanta struggles to find his way back to the top after being dumped live on-air. In his journey to revive his career, he meets a woman that once called his show seeking love advice, and that is where things begin to tangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Gonul (2015)
Plot Summary:
A nurse escapes from her surgeon fiancé after his ex reveals his dark secrets. She later finds love again, but a car accident changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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XYX (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikky, Farah, Binny- Three Friends, flatmates, and colleagues. The confusion starts when a question arises about who loves whom? Will they be able to straighten out their friendship or the love triangle that is twisted in all means.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dil Se Dil Tak (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of Parth and Shorvari, a happily married couple, change after the entry of Teni, a young bubbly girl, who decides to become a surrogate mother to their child.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
Plot Summary:
Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong (2015)
Plot Summary:
A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sexy, period piece
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Rosita (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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Tempting Fate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gabby's picture perfect marriage to Elliott is jeopardized when she meets Matt, a handsome younger man who ignites a fire and desire within her. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sangre de mi tierra (2017)
Plot Summary:
American drama series about two rival family wine farmers in Napa, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sacrificio de Mujer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sacrificio de Mujer is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International. Marjorie de Sousa and Juan A. Baptista star as the main protagonists with Mariana Torres and Pablo Azar as co-protagonists. Luis Jose Santander,Flor Núñez, Géraldine Bazán, Arnaldo Pipke and Ximena Duque star as the main villains. Filming took place in Miami, Florida in 2010. From April 18, 2011 to June 17, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekday afternoons at 12pm/11am central. From June 20, 2011 to July 7, 2011, the remaining episodes aired for one hour weekday afternoons. As of September 21, 2011, Venevisión is currently airing Sacrificio de Mujer at 10pm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Dog love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perro Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010. This is a Colombian soap opera remake of the 1998 Cenpro Televisión daily telenovela Perro Amor, written by Natalia Ospina & Andrés Salgado. As with most of its other soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Girl in Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
After university student You Jia Qi met Meng He Ping, the two started dating. Meng He Ping's mother however strongly objected to their relationship. Jia Qi broke up with He Ping and He Ping angrily went overseas. Jia Qi's friend Ruan Zheng Dong who comes from a rich family, had an accident and ended up in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, novela
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Simply María (2015)
Plot Summary:
Will Maria marry Christoper.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Baraj (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nazım meets Nehir on an internet dating site. They didn't see each other until Nehir sent her own photo. Thinking that Nehir is very beautiful and younger than him, Nazım hesitates to send his own photo and sends Tarık's photo. As Nehir likes Tarık in the photo and surprisingly comes to the Dam, things get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Drudgery Train (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit of the opposite sex. The working class Kanta becomes a sort of unruly anti-hero, maintaining his pride, defiance, and self-assurance even as his prospects seem increasingly grim.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Playing with Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three prosperous women, including a mother and her daughter, fall for a seductive man in Colombia's Coffee Triangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sensual
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For Jojo (2022)
Plot Summary:
When her best friend Jojo falls in love and moves on from their wild dating adventures in Berlin, Paula does everything she can to sabotage her wedding.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Autumn Fall (2015)
Plot Summary:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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High Resolution (2018)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their courtship in an epic laptop-filmed “documentary”, the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Time Is Up (2021)
Plot Summary:
Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, teen
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Classic Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a love triangle that miraculously mirrors her mother's romance years ago, a young woman let's her heart lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Chain Reaction (2017)
Plot Summary:
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Worst Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is an actress who also plays in her real life. One day, she meets three different men and changes her own character each time she dates them, just like taking a role in the play. One is clever and polite, another is boyish and honest, and the last seems elegant and mature. Though each of her performances full of lies seems going smoothly, everything is about to be messed up at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bin Roye (2015)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious girl seeks out her destiny and true love , when tables start to take a turn she meets a man who gives her a completely new perspective to life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing