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Plot Summary:
There are victims that arrive by night. They intuit, unaware of the danger that awaits them. They may attempt to resist, but a young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. A dog is the only witness of this terrifying world that seems certain never to end.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful
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EO (2022)
Plot Summary:
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Italy, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: social, aesthetic, interesting
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The Absent (2014)
Plot Summary:
An old man lives alone in a shabby cabin in a remote mountainous area of Mexico. His house is set to be demolished in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the area. He doesn't know how to protect his house. Time goes by and one day a young man shows up on his doorstep. Looking exhausted, he starts his new routine here, cooking and doing laundry just like the old man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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Happy Times Will Come Soon (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tommaso and Arturo are on the run in a remote forest. They hunt for food, trying to survive and find their way through the lush nature. It’s quiet, almost peaceful, until the sound of gunshots… Many years later, this forest has a wolf problem. It’s here where Ariane discovers a strange hole in the ground. Could she be the woman referred to in the valley’s legends?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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R.M.N. (2022)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Land (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Yellow Eagle family are Native American and live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. News reaches them that Floyd, the youngest son of the family, has died during military service in Afghanistan. The waiting begins to get his body back to the Reservation to be buried.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, brutal, depressing, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Belong To Us (2018)
Plot Summary:
An injured dog finds it's way into the hearts of a family after escaping an underground dog-fighting ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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All That Matters Is Past (2012)
Plot Summary:
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of William's pathologically jealous brother — in this haunting story from celebrated Norwegian director Sara Johnsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Things We Do for Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deep Breath (2001)
Plot Summary:
David is a troubled city boy, being looked after by his uncle on a farm. He is initiated into the drunken partying of the village and stumbles off drunk to find his friend Matthieu and cell-playing girlfriend in the forest. There he finds a brutal and horrifying outlet that will change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, tense, suspenseful, black and white
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The Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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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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I Am a Soldier (2015)
Plot Summary:
A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dirty Pool (1970)
Plot Summary:
A husband is being driven crazy by his insatiable wife. It seems that all the time she spends sunbathing has made her a nymphomaniac. A doctor sends over a pair of swingers to "counsel" the couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags:
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Playing with Fire (1975)
Plot Summary:
Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter Carolina, (Anicee Alvine) is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, postmodern
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Virgins (2018)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
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On the Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Personal Search (1973)
Plot Summary:
Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Seven Days of Himawari and Her Puppies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, suspense
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Trance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, queer cinema
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The End (2016)
Plot Summary:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Shanghai Belle (2011)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women who all go through 'hell' to finally receive an unexpected redemption. Each of them states her intimate confessions through daily diaries. They experiment a journey on the 'edge'. The result of which is the loss of their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Bitches (1973)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Tanya's Island (1980)
Plot Summary:
Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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Drakkar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A girl and a boy live apart men, with just dogs ans internet for company. In their isolation, they try to live their love as freely as possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, erotic, hot
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Looking for Her (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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Santa & Andres (2016)
Plot Summary:
Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, homoerotic
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The Beautiful Occasion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Dreamchild (2020)
Plot Summary:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing