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Plot Summary:
A teenager mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Also known by the title "School of Fear".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Death Screams (1982)
Plot Summary:
Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love couple Bob and Kathy, coach, Neil Marshall, waitresses, timid blonde Lily and comely, nubile Ramona, their boss Jackson and learning difficulties teenage peeping tom Casey who's dad Avery is the town sheriff. Several them decide to spend the night down at the river, where a unknown double homicide climaxed there some nights before. But among the fairgoers is the one responsible for the deaths and as they are lurking in the shadows troubled over a tragic past (or just about one thing or another) deciding to take their frustrations out with a machete on those they blame for all the misfortunes in their life. Following the group back to their riverside stamping grounds they set about ensuring no one leaves the area alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, slasher horror, bloody, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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The Brutalization Of Franz Baum (1974)
Plot Summary:
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: crying
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Servants (2020)
Plot Summary:
Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: thrilling, black and white, crying
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Too Late (1996)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced prosecutor becomes involved with a local woman while investigating a miner's death.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Inn on the River (1962)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Cat's Cradle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Oxygen Starvation (1992)
Plot Summary:
Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Ukraine, Canada
Duration: 92 min
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Cru (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Men's Business (1999)
Plot Summary:
Secret Men's Business explores the relationships and issues of 4 school-friends reunited after the death of a beloved school teacher. During a weekend of sun, surf, girls, wives and late night reminiscing, the friends begin to deal with certain truths which have been ignored for some time. As relationships and issues are explored, the friends face their own personal challenges amidst a contempt bourne out of familiarity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
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Good and Bad at Games (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Minute of Silence (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Virus of Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A swim instructor dealing with a child terrified of the water is accused of inappropriate behavior -- but the stories offered don't line up, leaving parents suspicious and doubtful.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Kamouraska (1973)
Plot Summary:
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blushing Charlie (1970)
Plot Summary:
Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: homoerotic
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Accounts (1983)
Plot Summary:
The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Blind Spot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dominick Brassan has the power to turn invisible, but rarely uses it. Instead he has kept it a shameful secret, hidden even from Viveka, his fiancée. But when his ability to control his gift gets out of hand, his life, friendships and relationships will be forever turned inside out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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The Here After (2015)
Plot Summary:
When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 102 min
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Wild (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young man sometimes acts like a dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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She Deserved It (2010)
Plot Summary:
Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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The Sheriff Behind Bars (1966)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Paratroopers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Not everyone is born to be a soldier. Not even in Israel, where universal conscription is the tradition. This movie is about a Sad Sack in the Israeli army, incompetent to complete training and yet incompetent to extricate himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic
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City of M (2000)
Plot Summary:
After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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Cha cha cha (2013)
Plot Summary:
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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Almost 18 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Almost 18 is a charming and unaffected film about five 17-year-old guys from Helsinki in 2010. Karri, Peter, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, non-linear, homoerotic
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Concrete (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, crying
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Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film, sexy