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Plot Summary:
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy
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Original Bliss (2016)
Plot Summary:
Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Wild Camp (2005)
Plot Summary:
Un camping au bord d'un lac pendant les vacances d'été. Camille, 17 ans, y traîne son ennui coincée entre ses parents et son petit ami. Elle rencontre Blaise, la quarantaine, tout juste embauché comme moniteur de voile. Camille et Blaise connaissent tous deux ce même mal de vivre qui les rapproche et les éloigne des autres. Mais leur complicité alimente la rumeur d'une liaison qui exaspère leur entourage et déchaîne les passions. Ils se lancent alors à corps perdus dans une dangereuse histoire d'amour.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, sexual
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The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
Plot Summary:
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 201 min
Plot tags: avant garde, art house, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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He Loves Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her more paranoid, delusional and violent in alarming ways. As her mental state continues to unravel, whoever gets in the way of Laura's myriad of fantasies becomes expendable, revealing the shocking dream world that insulates her from reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological thriller, serious, realistic
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Summer Clouds (2004)
Plot Summary:
Daniel (Roberto Enríquez), Ana (Natalia Millán), and their little boy, Manuel (Kevin Almodóvar), travel from Madrid to a resort on the Costa Brava for the summer. Ana runs into Marta (Irene Montalà of L'Auberge Espagnole), a local shopgirl whom she's met on previous visits. Marta introduces Ana to her cousin, Robert (David Selvas), who runs an antique shop. Robert is immediately attracted to Ana. Marta tells him that Ana is happily married, and confesses that she has a crush on Ana's husband, Daniel. Robert, intrigued, makes a pact with Marta. Robert will help Marta seduce Daniel if she will help Robert seduce Ana. One night, the cousins cunningly arrange to separate the couple, and some serious flirtation ensues. While Marta, casually dates a local surfer, Tomás (Roger Casamajor), begins to have second thoughts, Robert grows more obsessed with the couple. He befriends Daniel and peppers him with questions about the strength of his nine-year marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, realistic, semi serious, erotic, humorous, talky, sexual
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A Change of Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Beneath Jim Marshall's veneer as the all-American father and husband, lies a long suppressed desire that is about to ruin his idyllic family. When Elaine Marshall (Jean Smart) catches her husband and his lover in a hotel room, her anger quickly turns to shock as she discovers that Jim's paramour is a young man. What ensues is painful soul-searching for Jim, Elaine, and their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Prague (2006)
Plot Summary:
Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Signs & Wonders (2000)
Plot Summary:
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, psychological, talky, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating, minimal cast, clever, serious
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Webdultery (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy
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Married/Unmarried (2001)
Plot Summary:
Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, semi serious
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You (2007)
Plot Summary:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her husband, her son and her profession to live this frenzy through to its conclusion. A quest for freedom and change that sends Michèle on a turbulent drift, but remains, nevertheless, intimate and personal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
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Afinidades (2010)
Plot Summary:
Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, talky, sexual, sexy, sex comedy
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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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Twilight Portrait (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, neo noir, disturbing, art house, psychotronic
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Punish Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sexual, erotic, disturbing, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, crying
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My Brother's Wife (2005)
Plot Summary:
After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of events lead these three characters to a dangerous game of revenges, secrets and passions. Two brothers and one woman: the triangle is outlined in a disquieting way. It is a bomb that triggers family secrets, the contained rage of desire and the unmanageable power of love. An exciting story that subjugates the viewer from beginning to end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, sexy, entertaining
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Twelve Thirty (2010)
Plot Summary:
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, realistic, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Family Secrets (2001)
Plot Summary:
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, captivating, suspense
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A Rational Solution (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend's wife. A smart, funny film made for adults. Nominated for Best Film at the 2009 Ghent International Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, witty
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Strange Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, tense, realistic, serious, erotic, sincere, sensual, sexual, hot
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The Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, erotic, gloomy, philosophical, bleak, grindhouse
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Betrayal (2012)
Plot Summary:
While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, sexy, detective, contemplative, gloomy
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The Babysitters (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, erotic, independent film, bleak, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, dark
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Plot Summary:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, talky, sincere, thought provoking, touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Plot Summary:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, touching, spiritual, stylized, sexual
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Fidelity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious, emotional, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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In Bed (2005)
Plot Summary:
It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride home -- ends in a passionate night of lovemaking and intense conversation for young singles Bruno and Daniela. Shacked up at a flea-bitten motel for a one-night stand, the pair lingers deep into the night, alternating between powerful physical encounters and an ever-deepening emotional connection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, explicit, romantic drama, erotic drama