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Plot Summary:
Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, philosophical, neo noir, twisted, sincere, touching, offbeat, artsy
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Atlantic City (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for so desperately.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, cynical, aesthetic, tense, sentimental, clever, touching, serious
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The Double Hour (2009)
Plot Summary:
A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, neo noir, psychological thriller, inspirational, surprise ending
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The Family Friend (2006)
Plot Summary:
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, rough, philosophical, neo noir, realistic, surreal, cynical, black comedy, dark comedy
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One Man Up (2001)
Plot Summary:
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Evocatively set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead entirely separate yet strangely parallel lives. One (Toni Servillo, Gomorrah) is a pop singer who finds himself washed up after a sex scandal ends his run of success; the other (Andrea Renzi) a football hero whose playing career is abruptly cut short by injury. Sharply observed and featuring excellent performances from the two leads, Sorrentino's compelling film explores the personal consequences wrought by cruel reversals of fortune. (iTunes).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, clever, captivating, contemplative, talky
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The Swimming Pool (1969)
Plot Summary:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, inspirational, retro, sexy, slasher, anthology, art house, technicolor, crime drama
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Post Mortem (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this tough French-Canadian drama, two outsiders -- one who works with the law, another who lives outside it -- come together with unfortunate consequences. Linda (Sylvie Moreau) is a devoted single mother who will do anything to support her five-year-old daughter, Charlotte (Sarah Lecompte-Bergeron). Unfortunately, a lot of what Linda does best isn't exactly legal, such as luring well-to-do men into the park and then mugging them. One night, Linda is trying to coax a visitor from America into the shadows when the situation starts to go wrong. Meanwhile, Ghislain (Gabriel Arcand) is a shy, lonely fellow who works at the morgue and likes to listen to the blues late at night. In time, we discover that Linda and Ghislain met at one time, leading to an ugly encounter for both of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cinema verite
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Angela (2002)
Plot Summary:
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Plot Summary:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual, stylized, meditative, light, realistic, humorous
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Bad Blood (1986)
Plot Summary:
A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can treat the disease has been formulated, it's been locked away in an inaccessible government building. A woman hires a man to steal the serum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychedelic, neo noir, art house, deep, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Gunshy (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Tainted Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, disturbing
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Gorbachev (2010)
Plot Summary:
Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, serious, contemplative
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Loro (2018)
Plot Summary:
"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, factual, tense, captivating, controversial
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Plot Summary:
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, clever, humorous, cynical, funny, epic, cult classic, atmospheric
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Il Divo (2008)
Plot Summary:
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, cerebral, controversial, realistic, intense
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Croupier (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, clever, noir, serious, realistic, entertaining, atmospheric, surprise ending, twist ending
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Marnie (1964)
Plot Summary:
Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, enigmatic, sexual, tense, clever, talky
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Reconstruction (2003)
Plot Summary:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic, philosophical, enigmatic, emotional, melancholic, serious
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Pericle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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3-Iron (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. He always tries to leave before the owners get back but in one ostensibly empty mansion he meets the abused wife of a rich man and she escapes with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic, philosophical, touching, melancholic, bleak, meditative, breathtaking
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Le Samurai (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, visual, meditative, witty, art house
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Plot Summary:
A chief of detectives, homicide section, commits a murder and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, surreal, psychological, atmospheric, political, satirical, surprise ending, suspenseful, serious
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A Quiet Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, tragic
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The Funeral (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film, philosophical, hood, tense, rough, clever, serious, captivating
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Gomorrah (2008)
Plot Summary:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious, brutal, depressing, bleak, anthology, thought provoking
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, absurd, cerebral, talky
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Lolita (1962)
Plot Summary:
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: sexual, disturbing, psychological, sexy, black comedy, sensual, erotic, black and white, serious, captivating
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Cassandra's Dream (2007)
Plot Summary:
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky, realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, clever
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The Best Offer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, captivating, serious, cerebral, suspense, tense
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The Godfather (1972)
Plot Summary:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, epic, atmospheric, dramatic, captivating, rough, realistic, family saga, entertaining, breathtaking