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Plot Summary:
“Driver’s first feature – a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan’s Chinatown and its immediate environs – may well be the most visually ravishing American independent film of its year (1986). Set in an irrational, poetic universe that bears a certain relationship to Jacques Rivette’s DUELLE, this dreamy intrigue breaks a cardinal rule of fantasy by striking off in a number of directions: an executive barks in the street, a young Frenchwoman (Magnuson) loses her hair, and machines in a copy shop start to purr and wheeze on their own initiative. The moods that are established are delicate, and not everyone will be able to go with them, but Driver sustains them with beauty and eccentric charm.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: indie film, fairy tale, independent film
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Day of the Idiots (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own sake. Critics that support the avant-garde might feel that the lack of apparent purpose in each "idiot's" (the title is "Day of the Idiots') physical and emotional problems is a form of high art. The viewers will have to decide for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: weird
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Flowers (2010)
Plot Summary:
"FLOWERS" covers the lives of six woman whose lives span a period of three generations (from the Show period all the way through to the present day). Starting in the 1930's, Rin (Yu Aoi) is worried about her arranged marriage that her parents setup. Eventually Rin has three daughters: Kaoru (Yuko Takeuchi) - who tragically loses her husband in a car accident, Midori (Rena Tanaka) - a career woman who becomes shaken by a marriage proposal, and youngest child Sato (Yukie Nakama). In the 1960's Sato gives birth to Kanna (Kyoka Suzuki) and Kei (Ryoko Hirosue). In the present day, Kanna is now worried about becoming a single mother. The lives of these woman are portrayed with beauty and grace.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Wonderwell (2023)
Plot Summary:
In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a timeless magical adventure in Wonderwell.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Scarlet's Witch (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lonely girl befriend a witch in the woods who has alter motives in this adult fairy tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Too Late to Die Young (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Our Wonderful Lives (2018)
Plot Summary:
Margot, Jeremy, Salome, Caesar, Sonia - They are between 18 and 50 years old. Everything separates them except the urgency to rebuild and restore the relationship to the other that the addiction has destroyed. Solidary, they have as rules, sharing, honesty, authenticity, sincerity, humanity. An incredible band of living people who are screaming loudly that we are doing better than others alone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Clara Sola (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spiritual, existential
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Everything Else (2016)
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After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she has even suppressed the loss of her daughter who drowned years ago. As her retirement approaches the walls of bureaucracy that have sheltered her from her pain begin to crumble. Doña Flor’s sense of self begins to awaken in parallel with the country beginning to erupt from excessive violence and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Margarita Happy Hour (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five young women, each with children, meet once a week for $2 margaritas and discuss life, love and change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
Plot Summary:
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, touching, feel good
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The Chambermaid (2018)
Plot Summary:
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, inspirational, art film, erotic
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Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Adam (2019)
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Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Justice of Bunny King (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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King Thrushbeard (1984)
Plot Summary:
King Thrushbeard.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, fable
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Split (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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Care (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Trees of Peace (2021)
Plot Summary:
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Resurrection (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, contemplative, psychotronic, spiritual
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Sea Horse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three women struggle to survive in the Alaskan wilderness after a mysterious event has left them homeless. Along the way, they encounter other survivors who are out to help or hurt them, as well as a dangerous supernatural presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Girl in the Park (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, touching, emotional, realistic, gloomy, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Snow White (2012)
Plot Summary:
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: silent, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, fairy tale, black and white, neo noir, social, surreal, poignant
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Plot Summary:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, beautiful
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Petite Maman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has heard so much about. One day, her mother suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a fort.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, talky, psychedelic, art house, independent film, teen, feel good
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Waiting for the Miracle to Come (2018)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring trapeze artist discovers a cryptic letter, written once by her recently deceased father, that leads her to a gold mine in a remote California desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
20 years later sequel to The Craft (1996).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, scary, fairy tale, gothic, splatter, dark drama
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, controversial, cult classic, independent film, tense, sincere, serious, emotional
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For Colored Girls (2010)
Plot Summary:
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, emotional, contemplative, hood, uplifting, social, sad, tear jerker