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Plot Summary:
When seductive young Cinni comes to babysit for a troubled couple, she's after more than extra spending money. Starting with the kids and working around to the husband, evil Cinni plots to take over a young mother's life--ruthlessly dealing with anyone who gets in her way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Life at the Top (1965)
Plot Summary:
'Life at the Top' is a sequel to 'Room at the Top', made in 1959. Ten years have passed and Joe Lampton now takes a wealthy lifestyle alongside his wife and two kids. But since he's married the boss' daughter, his rise in the company is seen with notoriety. Also, the marriage is shaken by adultery affairs. Doubting his abilities and disgruntled by the bad outlook, Joe will try to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Birch Interval (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Madame Bovary (1969)
Plot Summary:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy
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A Dream of Kings (1969)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and touching drama set in Chicago's vibrant Greek-American community, A Dream of Kings benefits from the regal talent of Anthony Quinn in a role he was born to play: Matsoukos, a proud, earthy optimist, very much like his unforgettable stage and screen Zorba. Determined to take his ailing son with him to Greece, Matsukos would move all creation to secure the travel money, even risk the hard-earned respect and love he's won as a community counselor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Tender Is the Night (1962)
Plot Summary:
Director Henry King's 1962 film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Paul Lukas and Jill St. John.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: retro
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Babysitter's Black Book (2015)
Plot Summary:
When her parents' financial problems threaten Ashley's dreams for college, the high school whiz kid takes matters into her own hands. She and her girlfriends turn their babysitting business into a wildly successful escort service for dads. But in this small suburban community, nothing stays secret for long.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, realistic, cynical, dark, crying, psychotronic
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Secrets of a Married Man (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man (Shatner) going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one (Shepherd) and he thinks he has it all. That is until her pimp starts hounding him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Trade Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, disturbing, erotic drama, independent film, black comedy
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The Key (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disillusioned Los Angeles based married couple's twisted sexual relationship is told exclusively through their own private journal entries. What results is a visually stunning exploration of obsession, desperation, and lust in this deeply erotic, uncompromising, visually adventurous story of a marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. While family would like to make that decision for him. Watch as all the truth unravels in this drama/ romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, ridiculous
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Play It As It Lays (1972)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Road Movie (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, crying, independent film
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Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Charles is bored with being a wealthy, successful architect. He takes a temporary job photographing undressed women and falls for Pamela. His wife, Elaine, has little sympathy for this mid-life crisis.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
Secrets: Tarron is a successful, married businessman who risks losing it all when a sexy new hire comes to his company. As his wife struggles to keep her family together by all means necessary, Tarron’s world is tested and shaken to its core.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Devious Nanny (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to protect her family after her husband has an affair with their nanny. As her husband's co-workers are killed, she discovers everything is not what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, sexy
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When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sad
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The Human Contract (2008)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited woman leads a businessman down a path of reckless abandon.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, erotic, scary, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Stolen from the Heart (2000)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens to be beset with heart problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Plot Summary:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sexual, psychological thriller
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Mae Bia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Chanachol, recently returned to Thailand after living overseas, signs up for a tour to get back in touch with Thai culture, and finds himself attracted to the tour guide, Mekhala. There are several problems with the relationship: Chanachol is married, with family, and Mekhala has a mysterious, symbiotic relationship with a deadly cobra, and many of her previous suitors have ended up dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, period drama
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Vixen! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, sexual, cult film
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Shadow People (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dan and Gretchen, a couple with a secretive past and a failing relationship, rent a guest house from another couple in California's San Fernando Valley. But jealousy and betrayal turn a casual friendship into a game of manipulation and deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A teenager girl intrudes a quite couple's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, hot
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Challenger (1990)
Plot Summary:
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sad, sincere, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
Plot Summary:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling novel (an Oprah book club selection), the movie effectively presents the troubling dynamics that exist between family members who've suffered such an unsettling loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, melancholic, serious, realistic, inspirational, contemplative, gloomy
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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