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Plot Summary:
Danila is sixteen. Katya is twice his age. He spends hours watching her from an old shed on the forest. He does not even think about trying to be with her until Danila's father shows up on Katya's doorstep in an attempt to run away from his avalanching problems. Father and son are drawn into turmoil of events where neighbor turns against neighbor, dividing the community, and pushing everyone`s life towards a disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, realistic, erotic, ambiguous ending, crying, weird, hot
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My Brother Tom (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, emotional, captivating, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Confetti Harvest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious
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The Devil's Playground (1976)
Plot Summary:
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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Lena (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, ambiguous ending
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Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Plot Summary:
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, crying
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All These Small Moments (2018)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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Acid (2018)
Plot Summary:
They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, depressing, captivating, erotic, touching, disturbing, crying
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Mall (2014)
Plot Summary:
Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir things up. On his personal war campaign, he not only changes his life radically, but also the fate of other people who are in the wrong place at the same time: a teenager whose favorite pastime is smoking pot in his dreary existence, a housewife, where their best days have been left behind, a greedy businessman whose only desire is to increase his wealth and a depressed pervert.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, realistic, independent film, neo noir, crying, freeze frame
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Home (2011)
Plot Summary:
Big home of Shamanov family has everything - except love and understanding under the roof.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
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Mouchette (1967)
Plot Summary:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, depressing, bleak, emotional, disturbing, contemplative, stylized, spiritual, inspirational
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Twilight Portrait (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, neo noir, disturbing, art house, psychotronic
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak, sexy, explicit, realistic, crying, independent film
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Punish Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sexual, erotic, disturbing, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, crying
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Summer '04 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy
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Fat Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harboring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense, controversial, disturbing, sensual, stylized, sexual
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2:37 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the story unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each with its own explosive significance. An unwanted pregnancy unravels a terrible, dark secret; all is not as it appears for the seemingly confident school football hero; an outcast must deal with everyday taunts from his peers; a beautiful young girl battles an eating disorder; a stellar student constantly struggles to win his parents' approval; while another uses drugs to escape from his own demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, sincere, serious, depressing, sad, contemplative, teen, realistic, thought provoking
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The Class (2007)
Plot Summary:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic, sad, crying, thought provoking, touching, brutal
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14+ (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex glides his mouse tenderly over online images of Vika. He has been smitten ever since he saw her with her friends and cannot get her out of his head. Now he has found Vika’s profile online and has learned a lot about her. Vika has no idea about any of this. She is beyond Alex’s reach because her school and block of flats are enemy territory for him. Alex nonetheless sneaks into a disco at her school and plucks up the courage to ask her to dance. Incensed by the intruder, the other boys give Alex a beating.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspense, disturbing, slang, crying, tension
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
Plot Summary:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic, controversial, heartbreaking, serious, gloomy, emotional
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Speak (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film, sincere, sad, depressing, teen, thought provoking, intellectual
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And Your Mother Too! (2001)
Plot Summary:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, road movie, erotic, realistic, art house, sensual, sex comedy, hispanic, eros, humorous
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Fish Tank (2009)
Plot Summary:
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, gloomy, sincere, disturbing, sexy, realistic, teen, serious, depressing
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Ambivalence (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, retro, surprise ending, disturbing, ambiguous ending
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Ken Park (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit, sexy, realistic, serious, independent film, erotic
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Fidelity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, disturbing, erotic, scenic, ambiguous ending, surprise ending, crying
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Clement (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, psychological, sexy, disturbing, hot
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Palo Alto (2013)
Plot Summary:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred, whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic, indie film, aesthetic, erotic, mumblecore, artsy
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Thirteen (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen, sincere, realistic, tense, disturbing, emotional, intense, serious, depressing, bleak
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American Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, cerebral, dramatic, sexy, black comedy, tragicomedy, cynical
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Queen of Hearts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sexy, emotional, melancholic, disturbing, erotic, absurd, controversial, crying, tragic