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Plot Summary:
An enormous effort of narrative complexity made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses living very different experiences in very different universes….
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 808 min
Plot tags: inspirational
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Dead Man's Seat (1984)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Five Devils (2022)
Plot Summary:
8-year-old Vicky possesses a special gift: she has a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively – to the despair of her fire-fighter father. One day, her mysterious aunt Julia suddenly reappears in their lives, and secrets from their past resurface both violently and magically.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Priceless Beauty (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Singing Forest (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two lovers are killed during the Holocaust. One reincarnates first. He has a twenty two year old daughter who falls in love with who her father believes is his past life lover.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: touching, serious
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Stars at Noon (2022)
Plot Summary:
In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Panama, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Summit (2017)
Plot Summary:
At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a corruption case. On her father’s call, Marina Blanco, attends the Summit to find protection, to earn time and to negotiate a way out. That past once calm and domestic, becomes a menacing element, almost fantastic, seen from the top of public life, seen from the Summit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, art house
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Summer Heat (2008)
Plot Summary:
Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, melancholic, sexual, nature documentary
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Decision to Leave (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hae-Joon, a seasoned detective, investigates the suspicious death of a man on a mountaintop. Soon, he begins to suspect Seo-rae, the deceased's wife, while being unsettled by his attraction to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological thriller, suspense, visual, neo noir, iconic
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Where Truth Lies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Driven to drink by his wife's death, a tormented doctor is committed to an experimental rehab.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Secret Rapture (1993)
Plot Summary:
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Summoning (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, pre war
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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is the fantastic story of Leopoldo, a lonely film projectionist who has invented a machine to record his dreams. Through a series of odd events, Leopoldo discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: spiritual, manga, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, crying, mystical
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The Unknown (1965)
Plot Summary:
Gumnaam is a 1965 Indian suspense thriller film directed by Raja Nawathe, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen and Mehmood. Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, detective, psychological thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Absolute Beginners (1986)
Plot Summary:
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: offbeat, cult classic, sentimental, serious, realistic, witty, crying, independent film, light, clever
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Hotel Fear (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, expressionism, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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Buried Alive (1990)
Plot Summary:
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money. Only trouble the drug overdose they give him doesn't kill him. Lucky for Clint he's buried in a cheap wooden box and he unburies himself. Just remember, Hell hath no fury like a man buried alive!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, slasher, atmospheric, classic horror, spooky, nostalgic
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Death in Buenos Aires (2014)
Plot Summary:
Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises even the most astute detective. What will triumph: law or desire?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tragic ending, exciting, suspense, lgbt cinema, crying, detective, queer cinema
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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Compulsed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, sensual
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Man Without a Memory (1974)
Plot Summary:
In London, an amnesiac is abducted and beaten by a stranger who calls him a "dirty son of a double-crosser." When a sniper's bullet kills his attacker the man flees the country with airline tickets provided by a wife he never knew he had. Arriving home, his wife calls him a "dirty rotten bastard" and he is threatened by another stranger who demands that he return a million dollars in uncut heroin - or die.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, cult film
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The Tamarind Seed (1974)
Plot Summary:
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, independent film, serious, realistic, microfilm
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Birth (2004)
Plot Summary:
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, artsy, art house, cerebral
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Fascination (2004)
Plot Summary:
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), who shared Scott's doubts about the upcoming nuptials. Along the way, he falls in love with Kelly, but a fatal explosion turns Scott's life upside down - and the evidence points to him as the murderer. Has he been framed?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense, romantic, realistic, sexual, surprise ending
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Him (2021)
Plot Summary:
A composer starts doubting and questioning his whole life and its meaning. Isolating himself in his house in Brittany where various important persons (his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his parents, his doctor...) will come and visit him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: horror musical
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Imagining Argentina (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, inspirational, romantic, political, romantic drama
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Mirage (2018)
Plot Summary:
On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother María. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a violent scene through the window in the house of his neighbor Ángel Prieto. Moving to the house, he discovers Hilda Weiss, Prieto's wife, dead in the house. Running from Prieto, Nico is run over by a car, dying in the crash. 25 years later, November 9, 2014, Vera Roy is a woman who divides her time between her work as nurse in the hospital and the family with her husband David Ortiz and her little daughter Gloria. To celebrate their moving to a new house in the suburb, they invite her friend and former boyfriend Aitor Medina and his mother Clara, where Vera learns that she and David are in Nico's house and that after Nico's death, Ángel Prieto was arrested and he committed suicide three months later in prison. This night after the dinner, Vera.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, detective, philosophical, clever
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Dragonfly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, tear jerker, serious, mystical, spiritual, exciting
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Plot Summary:
In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – and a spy for the Americans. When she and Mischa (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Emerald City), begin spying on Alexander ( Sam Reid, Anonymous), an idealistic Communist politician, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him. Her choice between love and duty leads to a nail-biting conclusion that Alexander (Charles Dance, The Imitation Game) can only unravel decades later in 1990s New York. His journey back to the snowbound streets of Moscow uncovers a love triangle and betrayals from those he trusted most.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, emotional
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The Illusionist (2006)
Plot Summary:
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 386000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surprise ending, period piece, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, twist ending, mind bending, tricky, psychological thriller