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Plot Summary:
Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1978)
Plot Summary:
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Half Past Ten (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, romantic, captivating, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Under the Skin (1996)
Plot Summary:
Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Takkar (1995)
Plot Summary:
A convict studies law in prison and becomes a lawyer to seek revenge against the corrupt police officer who framed him on the very day of his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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In the Glitter Palace (1977)
Plot Summary:
The ex-girlfriend of a laywer/detective, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017)
Plot Summary:
I (Takumi Kitamura) am a high school student. I happen to find a diary by my classmate Sakura Yamauchi (Minami Hamabe) that reveals she is suffering from a pancreatic disease. I spent time with Sakura, but she dies. 12 years later, due to Sakura’s words, I (Shun Oguri) am now a high school teacher at the same school where I graduated from. While I talk with my student, I remember several months I spent with Sakura. Meanwhile, Kyoko (Keiko Kitagawa), who was Sakura’s friend, is soon to marry. Kyoko also recalls the days she spent with me and Sakura.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, light, romantic, sweet, art house, anime, romantic drama, tear jerker
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First Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about coming of age, coming out and a gay marriage that is sprinkled with both love and comedy, at the centre of which is a teenager who doesn’t yet know what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, social, art film, detective, tragic
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A Boy Called Hate (1995)
Plot Summary:
After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Winter Bay (1996)
Plot Summary:
John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old Patricia from drowning at a public bath in Vinterviken in Lake Mälaren. Her father shows his gratitude by taking them home to the wealthy neighborhood, Bromma, where he and his family lives. John-John meets his daughter Elisabeth, and instantly fall in love with her. But it's a long way to go before he wins her love and her father's consent.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Thieves (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan's dour, stoic son. Ivan's death changes every relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, serious, crime drama, psychological, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, philosophical
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Painkillers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Casper (Gijs Blom) has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit (Birgit Schuurman). He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially when he makes friends with Anouk (Susan Radder). She knows what Casper is going through when he learns that his mother is seriously ill: Marit has cancer. Scared of what might happen to her, Casper and his best friend Pim (Massimo Pesik) decide to find his father….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, psychological, captivating, touching, modern day adaptation
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Yearning (1964)
Plot Summary:
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Storyteller (2014)
Plot Summary:
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, non-linear, detective
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Sky Of Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
During her freshman year in high school, Mika Tahara (Yui Aragaki) loses her cellular phone, but later finds it in the school library with the help of an unknown caller. Throughout the summer, Mika and the mysterious caller continue to communicate, and agree to meet each other once school starts again. The caller turns out to be Hiro (Haruma Miura), a delinquent-like boy Mika is initially afraid of, who shows proof of his identity as the caller with a photo of the sky on his cellular phone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, bad ending, sentimental, sincere, shoujo, captivating, touching, romantic drama, sexy
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Fireworks (1997)
Plot Summary:
A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, art house, bloody, emotional, lyrical, touching, disturbing, sentimental, serious, rough
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Before the Storm (2000)
Plot Summary:
Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo's class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country that wants Ali to assassinate an important man for them. Otherwise, they'll kill the family that Ali left when moving to Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, cult classic, crying, detective, surprise ending, cult film
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American Heart (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jack is now out of jail and he meets Nick, his adolescent son. Their relationship will be complicated, because Jack has a problem with alcohol. But his love for Nick will help him to get over the past and reach his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, rough, touching, emotional, independent film, teen, gloomy, road movie
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All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Plot Summary:
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, depressing, disturbing, teen, psychological, serious, art house, stylized, sexy, brutal
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The Wounded Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much unrequited lust that it explodes with horrible results.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, neorealism, homoerotic, sexy
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Like Grains of Sand (1995)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in their class.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: gay cinema, queer cinema
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Hurricane Streets (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, clever, bad ending, sad, harsh
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Summer Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic, sad
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The Preppie Connection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, independent film, clever
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Rumble Fish (1983)
Plot Summary:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, black and white, serious, cult classic, bleak, realistic, touching, captivating, cerebral
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Mean Creek (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense, independent film, captivating, emotional, sad, tense
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The Enemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
Plot Summary:
The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Kidulthood (2006)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen, emotional, cult classic, bleak, captivating, realistic