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Plot Summary:
A tragedy that tells the story of murder, sex and redemption against the backdrop of a dead-end town.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, surprise ending, independent film
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Eye of God (1997)
Plot Summary:
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys (Nick Stahl) turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff (Hal Holbrook) embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree (Martha Plimpton) and her new husband, Jack (Kevin Anderson), a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 78%
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
Plot Summary:
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Similar in 84%
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Plot Summary:
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, retro, contemplative, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Luella Miller (2005)
Plot Summary:
The arrival of gorgeous and enigmatic Luella Miller instantly disrupts the social balance of a small New Zealand town in this spine-tingling psychological thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, explicit, sexual, erotic, sexy
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Desolation Sound (2005)
Plot Summary:
Noir thriller from Vancouver plays out a destructive friendship between a depressed housewife and her childhood friend to an ugly conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Bedrooms (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bedrooms tells a story about the walls that separate people, the heartbreak and infidelity that's often the result and the redemption that comes from tearing those walls down. The film is told in 4 stories by 3 filmmakers. Three of the stories deal with married couples of various ages confronting the turning points of their relationships. A fourth story is interwoven throughout, providing bookends and context in the form of a story about ten year old twins, who, tired of sharing their bedroom set out to build a wall between their beds to create their own spaces. In building the wall to separate, they come to fully appreciate all things that connect them. Bedrooms explores human relationships, their myriad complications and the daily choice we face to either make them work or to move on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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Keep Your Distance (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. He's haunted by a series of mysterious notes that warn of an imminent fall from grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, realistic
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Bloodworth (2010)
Plot Summary:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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The Well (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and hold her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When old Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe for the money they got. But tragic accident and theft of their money change their plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Naomi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then face his wife's lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. With the complicity of his 80 years old mother, Ilan buries the man in a hole just dig in the cemetery. After a series of casualties, the corpse is then found and the commissioner Anton Karam, an old friend of the professor, starts the police investigation. When every signs seems to lead to the discovery of the assassin, an unexpected event will call every element into question again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sincere, serious, suspenseful
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Cages (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien (Sagamore Stévenin), a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside. When Damien and Eve become a couple, she joins him in looking after the bar and becomes friendly with the regular customers, but things take an unexpected turn when Eve is in a serious auto accident. While Eve walks away with no serious physical injuries, she's emotionally ravaged by the experience, and develops a severe speech impediment. Eve's new stutter makes it hard for her to communicate with Damien and she becomes the butt of jokes from the customers. Eve is increasingly isolated and Damien takes up with another woman until Eve retaliates by trapping him in their home and forces him to re-establish the building blocks of their relationship, starting with their sexual communication. Meanwhile, Eve's struggle to speak is contrasted with one of the tavern's annual events, an animal calling contest.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, sexy, tense, realistic, sexual
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Paper Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, art house, contemplative, talky
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La séparation (1994)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, light, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak, unusual plot structure
Similar in 84%
Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
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The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, gloomy
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Suburban Madness (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological
Similar in 81%
I Love You Too (2001)
Plot Summary:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He tells her the story and we see it in flashbacks: Reza explodes into his boring life, she's unpredictable and their relationship becomes intense.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, exciting, sexy
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Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Plot Summary:
Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion as to who she is. Edna has no identity without Harry, an ambitious, successful salesman who seems to love and care for Edna long after other men might become worried about her housewifely obsessions... Edna is reviewing her life - in neatly chronological flashbacks - from the room in the psychiatric hospital where she's been confined ever since Harry's sudden death.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 76%
Open Window (2006)
Plot Summary:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 80%
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2013)
Plot Summary:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, touching, realistic, sweet, sad
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the shifty Getso. Conflict seems to follow Martha, since she also becomes romantically involved with local fix-it man, Mackey, who is sleeping with Frances as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Polish Bride (1998)
Plot Summary:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
Similar in 76%
Tangled 8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, contemplative, talky, experimental, gloomy, independent film
Similar in 82%
She's So Lovely (1997)
Plot Summary:
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and is put in a psychiatric institution. Ten years later, Eddie is released and finds that Maureen has divorced him and is remarried with three children, one of whom is his little girl Jeanie. Eddie goes to reclaim his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, serious, realistic, talky, romantic drama, independent film, gloomy, biting, road movie
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Faithless (2000)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, tense, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, depressing, erotic
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Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, contemplative
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2013)
Plot Summary:
Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, touching, sweet, sad, sex comedy, teen, realistic, gloomy
Similar in 77%
No Looking Back (1998)
Plot Summary:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, scary, light
Similar in 84%
Three Sisters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, captivating, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film, period drama