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Plot Summary:
In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand (2018)
Plot Summary:
After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, mysterious
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The Story of Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Still Human (2018)
Plot Summary:
A paralysed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino carer, who has put her dream on hold and come to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons. As they learn more about each other, they also learn more about themselves. Together, they learn about how to face the different seasons of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min
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The Useless Girl (1982)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Dalmas (1973)
Plot Summary:
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn when he encounters drug lord Plastic Man and a tribe of LSD enthusiasts. What follows is both literal and metaphorical mayhem as the boundaries of the film start collapsing and our idea of what's real is pushed to its very limits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film
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Las Meninas (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, non-linear, independent film, psychedelic, art house
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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Plot Summary:
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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The Humans (2021)
Plot Summary:
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, independent film, existential, adaptation directed by original author
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Marking Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
MARKING TIME tells the story of Hal, a small town boy who has just left high school. The world is at his feet. He falls in love with Randa, an Afghani refugee, in a year of momentous change - from the optimistic time of the Sydney Olympics up until the post-September 11 world of a scared and divided nation.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 230 min
Plot tags:
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13 Summers Underwater (2017)
Plot Summary:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Thirst (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
Plot Summary:
A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, weird, cult film
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Pepperminta (2009)
Plot Summary:
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people of their fears. Pepperminta's wish is for everyone to see the world in her favorite colors. Werwen, a young plump and shy man yet whose sex appeal Pepperminta finds highly attractive, and the beautiful Edna, who talks to tulips, join her on her passionate mission. These three musketeers of a different kind set out to fight for a more humane world. Wherever the gang appears, everything is turned upside down and people's lives are transformed in the most miraculous and wondrous of ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, inspirational, mind bending, offbeat, semi serious, psychedelic, experimental, futuristic
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Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
Plot Summary:
Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. An independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed the local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: nostalgic
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Apple Garden (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Magic Mountain (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Lakeboat (2000)
Plot Summary:
Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, melancholic, satirical, stylized, humorous, realistic, clever, talky, witty, semi serious
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Oh, Moon! (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house
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Exit (2011)
Plot Summary:
Several people think the city is a maze and they obsessively search for the exit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, thought provoking, contemplative, captivating, tense, mind bending, serious
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Plot Summary:
TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son. Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life, and now, as a local cop in the outback town of Five Rivers, he wants to change things for the men in his community. Cutting between three generations, Mad Bastards is a raw look at the journey to becoming a man and the personal transformation one must make. Developed with local Aboriginal communities and fueled by a local cast, Mad Bastards draws from the rich tradition of storytelling inherent in Indigenous life. Using music from legendary Broome musicians the Pigram Brothers, writer/director Brendan Fletcher poetically fuses the harsh realities of violence, healing, and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, road movie, crying
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The People Next Door (1970)
Plot Summary:
Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to understand their now-alien daughter. Based on J.P. Miller's television play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, cult film
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Blue Dream (2013)
Plot Summary:
A news writer finds himself caught up in a world of sex, drugs and corporate takeovers as he tries to solve a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, semi serious
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Baby Bump (2015)
Plot Summary:
11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to extremes… at home and at school. Mickey has to find the strength within him to put a stop to what’s begun. Where will his encounter with his own maturing body take him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining, artsy, surreal
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Star Watching Dog (2011)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the dog's point of view. City hall employee Kyousuke Okutsu is assigned to uncover the man's identity for a proper funeral. As he investigates the situation, he remembers his late family and his own dog's unfailing loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: depressing, sad, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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The Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
A short film that tells the story of three older men who come into the same restaurant on Wednesday mornings at the same time every week. The story is told from the perspective of Megan, the newly hired waitress at the restaurant that takes classes at night. Through her deliberate acts of respect and purposeful efforts to get to know these gentlemen the shroud of their grumpy appearance is lifted and as the men open up the impact of their life stories extend beyond Megan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Climb (1997)
Plot Summary:
Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, and Danny decides to climb it to prove his courage. Help comes from an aging neighbor, Old Man Langer, a former construction foreman who's dying of cancer and wants Danny to help him commit suicide. Langer rigs pulleys and weights to help the lad make the climb. Meanwhile, an aggressive and angry neighbor (an army vet) regularly gets drunk and shoots off his rifle, and Danny's dad must confront him. It all comes to a head one stormy night.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Four Times (2010)
Plot Summary:
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, surreal, emotional, realistic, contemplative, existential, philosophical, spiritual, art house
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Resisting Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, immersed in her music, lets life slip her by like a strange melody. Adolescent Nadia has only one interest in life: to seek new experiences. Aurelia starts to lose her sensibility to pain, and the family relationships become so alienated that they begin to disintegrate like the house they live in.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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2 Friends (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls' high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze frame of the girls at the peak of their closeness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, surreal, non-linear