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Plot Summary:
In a perfect, violent-free world, a young vagabond must decide between human decency or self-interest when it comes to the matter of assassinating three people and gifting their corpses to a powerful figure full of impossible wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Woman Who Dreamed (1987)
Plot Summary:
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: allegory, detective
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The Grave Digger (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowed down by the images and stops the viewer from taking a flight of fantasy. I have always been searching for an intrinsically different tool in filmmaking. One that could record space in its temporal progression. I would never have thought it existed!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Behind the Waterfall (1995)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their father, brother and sister Tommy (Luke Baird) and Becky (Gena Gale Burghoff) are sent to live with their aunt for the summer. The siblings' grief lightens when they meet kindly old Irishman Mr. Connors (M*A*S*H's Radar, Gary Burghoff), who reignites their capacity for joy and wonder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valley of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Secret Friends (1991)
Plot Summary:
As an express train hurtles towards its destination, John (Alan Bates) a man whose sanity hangs by a thread, attempts to uncover his possible role in a brutal murder and the identity of the victim. The balance of his mind is strained to the limits by dark memories of a punishing childhood and a passionate jealousy for a beautiful young woman (Gina Bellman) - who may be a prostitute... or his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, adaptation directed by original author
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Crossing Thresholds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Main portion of the movie displays an evening out for people from multiple circles having dinner in Charisma restaurant. Many stories are being told by patrons from each table.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Train (1999)
Plot Summary:
An overweight California slob hears his brother's been killed in Tijuana and goes down to investigate. Once there he meets an odd assortment of characters, all of whom either knew his brother or in some way were involved with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy
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Sentimental Education (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: neo noir
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Barschel: A Murder in Geneva (1993)
Plot Summary:
A conspiracy-theorizing filmmaker meets with a prospective producer in order to pitch a movie about the death of real-life German politician Uwe Barschel, in which the official ruling of suicide raised more questions than answers.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Palaces of Pity (2011)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, surreal, art house, psychological horror, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental, splatter, avant garde
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Plot Summary:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic, campy
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Ebbie (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the true spirit of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
Plot Summary:
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, touching, feel good
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Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Generational Sins (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nightbeats (2009)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary noir set entirely at night Nightbeats is an homage to the classic noirs of the 1940's, though told as a contemporary drama, not a gumshoe satire, Nightbeats follow the lives of five people over four nights. Over these nights there are a series of deaths, suicides at first glance. Or are they?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Medea (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spiritual, fairy tale, psychedelic, epic, surreal, neorealism, fantasy adventure, cult classic, serious, talky
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Resurrection (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, contemplative, psychotronic, spiritual
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A Master Builder (2013)
Plot Summary:
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, philosophical, cerebral, touching, independent film, thought provoking
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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The Christmas Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Plot Summary:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas special, gothic horror, christmas horror, sentimental, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious
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Heaven Sent (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and save his mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Northfork (2003)
Plot Summary:
"We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a new hydroelectric project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching, disturbing, mindfuck, visually stunning, independent film, spiritual
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Butterfly Dreaming (2008)
Plot Summary:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what really happened to the professor's wife comes into focus.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Nine Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, philosophical, unusual plot structure, melancholic, inspirational, spiritual, surreal, existential, disgusting
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After Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential, psychological, sincere, touching, contemplative, stylized
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Plot Summary:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: spiritual, emotional, touching, christian film, serious, psychological, mystical, inspirational, philosophical, sad
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 182000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning, contemplative, thought provoking, art house, visual, touching