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Plot Summary:
The story of an anthropology professor Michal's who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp, and the second – an enigmatic student he meets by chance at Krakow Railway Station.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland, France, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, emotional, mysterious, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, avant garde, psychological, rough, serious
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Boy Meets Girl (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman picks a man up in a bar and takes him back to her place. He thinks he is going to get laid, she has over plans. She proceeds to drug him and incarcerate him in a chair in her basement before torturing him, physically and phycologically. It starts as an S&M excercise and goes to somewhere much much darker.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, independent film, erotic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual
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Arcana (1972)
Plot Summary:
A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, controversial
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First Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is obsessed with the desire to shape Sonia's body and mind as does a fire with gold. Almost imperceptibly Sonia becomes a passive participant and the relationship grows into a reciprocal masochistic game. When the two lovers isolate themselves in a country house in the Veneto hills, they dangerously lose touch with reality and the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic, sexy, controversial, erotic drama, ambiguous ending
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No Strings Attached (1997)
Plot Summary:
A renowned journalist becomes a suspect in a series of murders after he becomes intimately involved with a mysterious woman. In an attempt to clear his name, he tries to find a connection between his lover and the increasing number of dead bodies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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In the Cold of the Night (1990)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a fashion photographer concerned about the sudden appearance of nightmares in his nightly dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, slasher, perverse, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough
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The Flying Dutchman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sexuality and serial murder in an American village.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, tense, realistic, erotic, surprise ending
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Fidelity (2000)
Plot Summary:
Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, erotic, sensual, sexual, experimental, avant garde, psycho sexual
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A Snake of June (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, disturbing, black and white, psychological thriller, philosophical, suspense, slasher
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China White Serpentine (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and dangerous mind games. This was Tracey's world, and it eventually killed Trent. Another junkie named Beth, who was also seduced and killed by Tracey, appears to Dave. Beth begins to pull Dave into the nightmare that killed his brother Trent. Dave's sanity spirals out of control as he is assaulted by realizations of Trent's dark past. The prick of needles, the pain of violence, the pleasures of naked flesh. This tempest of desire and agony engulfs Dave. It is his task to unlock the dark, seedy mysteries of Trent's past while surviving the journey himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial, scary, realistic, experimental
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The 4th Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, surreal, psychosexual thriller, neo noir, controversial, disturbing, sexual, psychological thriller, dark comedy, psychological
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Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969)
Plot Summary:
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, sexual, controversial, sensual, psychological, rough, bleak, serious
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A New Life (2002)
Plot Summary:
A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic
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Boxing Helena (1993)
Plot Summary:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, offbeat, bleak, sexy, mindfuck
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House of Flesh Mannequins (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, rough, controversial, bleak, sexy, erotic, banned film
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The Devil (1972)
Plot Summary:
During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father's death and his girlfriend's betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, slasher, psychological, gothic, educational, gothic horror, controversial, creepy, cult classic, mind blowing
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Blind Beast (1969)
Plot Summary:
A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give way to meat cleavers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, surreal, mind bending, controversial, clever, psychedelic, suspense, slasher
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Mad Love (1985)
Plot Summary:
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Mary.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, romantic comedy, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, stylized, sexual, experimental
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L'Immortelle (1963)
Plot Summary:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic
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Immoral Women (1979)
Plot Summary:
The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and church benefactors. The second episode is the most notorious and, consequently, gave the film its controversial poster – featuring a rabbit slowly disappearing under the skirt of a teenage girl (played by Gaelle Legrand). The third and final episode, which has a modern-day setting, is the shortest – but also, possibly, the most outrageous: Pascale Christophe is a young married woman who’s abducted on a busy Parisian street by a small-time hood hidden inside a cardboard box!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, anthology, art house, eros, sensual, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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Twentynine Palms (2003)
Plot Summary:
David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: disturbing, road movie, psychological, sexy, harsh, erotic, controversial, sexual, philosophical, dark
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Jealousy (1999)
Plot Summary:
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexual, manga, eros, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic
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Laura (1979)
Plot Summary:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, sexual, beautiful
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Gothic (1986)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, mind bending, gothic horror, dark, art house
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, mind bending, avant garde, cerebral, scary, art house
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Amer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, experimental, psychological, postmodern, disturbing, retro, mind bending, psychological thriller, sexy
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Killing Me Softly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, romantic, psychosexual thriller, romantic drama
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Harem (1985)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, political thriller, erotic, romantic
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Audition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, suspense
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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L'ennui (1998)
Plot Summary:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, emotional, sexual, psycho sexual, sensual, transgressive, serious, realistic