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Plot Summary:
A couple, Shokufeh and Iman who plan to flee Iran travel to the port city of Anzali to meet a man who is to smuggle them across the border. They await him by the side of a lagoon. They accidentally drop their bag of money and jewelry into the lagoon. Iman tries to jump in and find the bag but drowns in the process. A diver called Bahram the Buffalo is assigned to find Iman’s body in the lagoon and a relationship begins to develop between him and Shokufeh….
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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A Little Girl from the Hotel 'Excelsior' (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Who Am I? (2010)
Plot Summary:
Investigator Sergey Shumov has a mystery on his hands. On a platform near a Moscow-Sevastopol train station the police have found a young man without documents and no memory. In near perfect detail, he can recall historical dates, songs of his favorite band, but can't recollect his name or say where he’s from. And frustrating Shumov’s search for answers even further are the young man’s personal belongings that offer not one clue to his identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twisted
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A Box for Rob (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories. But things only get worse when he's suspected of being the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, twisted
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The Rook (1994)
Plot Summary:
Martin Donovan plays John Abbott, a church investigator looking into a murder. The world is similar to England in the mid to late 1800s but with odd touches such as primitive computers etc. The sets are similar to Brazil, as is the look of a lot of the movie although much more reserved and somewhat more sinister. The movie revolves around a man, Abbott, who starts supremely self confident but eventually has to deal with his own failings and flaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Für den unbekannten Hund (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Land Imagined (2018)
Plot Summary:
A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Singapore, France, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, atmospheric, neo noir
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The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Moshé Mizrahi.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Power Of Evil (1985)
Plot Summary:
French, German & Italian film drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, detective
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64: Part 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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Everything (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man visits a prostitute but just wants to talk. She goes along with it until he starts asking questions. Is he just a loner or is there a different reason for him to come here?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, talky, surprise ending, minimal cast
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They Have Escaped (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, serious, realistic, sexy, tense, gloomy, road movie
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Ultras (2020)
Plot Summary:
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: aesthetic
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Kaili Blues (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the subtropical province of Guizhou, Chen Sheng embarks on a journey to find his nephew.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, visual, slow cinema, surreal
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The Robber Bride (2007)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Autumn Lights (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, touching, independent film
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Siddhartha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he had been seeking. The story is based on the best-selling novel by German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, dramatic, surreal, existential, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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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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Humanity (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing, detective, depressing, neo noir, captivating, controversial
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UV (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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About Elly (2009)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, depressing, suspense, existential, inspirational, philosophical
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American Woman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, social, detective
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The Quarry (1998)
Plot Summary:
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, suspense, crying
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All I See Is You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, anamorphic, exotic
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Waterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)
Plot Summary:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale
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Class Trip (1998)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: controversial, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, fairy tale, crying, hood
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The Happiest Place on Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own are threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job and his subsequent disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neorealism, touching, sincere, captivating, independent film, contemplative, cinema verite
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The Inheritors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, allegory
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film