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Plot Summary:
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Sitio and Ana start arguing inside an elevator that keeps opening in their same floor. Emotionally and physically trapped, the two will have to work together to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Flashout (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three young women from a parallel universe play a blind date reality game that culminates in the euphoric Flashout. They get trapped on unfamiliar planet Earth by a reality repairman who must destroy their pleasure-filled game before the Multiverse is permanently altered.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining
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Deserto Azul (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychological, mind bending, captivating, disturbing
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The Door into Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Crazy in Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of four raw facing different situations of life: love, heartache and endless tragicomic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Peru
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Amelia 2.0 (2017)
Plot Summary:
When the husband of a dying woman is approached by a corporation pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over humans' relationship with technology.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, cyber, experimental
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Safe Inside (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Tom and Ana, travelling through Europe, find work at the estate of the otherworldly Richard. Remote and cut off, they soon realise that they need to escape Richard’s powerful and controlling mind, before he traps them in his imagined world.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Auggie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Forced into early retirement, Felix Greystone falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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A Loving Husband (2016)
Plot Summary:
Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Critical Point (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aline with Valentín. Miroslava with Sergio. Two couples. Two different worlds. One only destiny. Reflected upon one another, their lives intertwine in everyday's story. A story full of conflict and passion, triumph and failure. Thus, their lives get chained in beginnings and endings. For them, there's a lot to choose, a lot to start and a lot to finish. Thus, Aline and Miroslava punctuate their life with a period, and a new paragraph.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Sex Life of Plants (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a head injury makes a dimwit stranger out Barbara's beloved Guille, she ceases to feel desire for him. Nearing 35, and longing for motherhood, she settles with a new partner, while the memory of lost love harrows her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Identicals (2015)
Plot Summary:
Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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109 Strange Things (2017)
Plot Summary:
KDI-109, a male robot from the future, comes to live with Shin Ki Won's family. She is a girl who is studying in the philosophy department.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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Lost Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Father & Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story about a gay dad who has raised his surrogate son alone after the death of his partner. The kid, weary of being bullied, seeks to break out on his own. He takes up with a guy who it turns out has a crush on the kid's dad. In limited release at CentralWorld and Esplanade Ratchada, Father and Son is rated 20+.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, melancholic, contemplative, weird
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Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It (2014)
Plot Summary:
Elvira had a fight with her husband, he went to purchase some cigarettes but he never came back, now Elvira is searching for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, hispanic
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You're Killing Me Susana (2016)
Plot Summary:
It is the journey of an educated man from Mexico City to the center of the United States, with its rigid society, its frigid winter, but most of all, it is an inner journey to face the contradictions between his love for his wife and the macho baggage he carries with him. It is a voyage of growth, funny and painful.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, feel good
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The Habit of Beauty (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one another other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, disturbing
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Lead with Your Heart (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back together and make them realize how much they still need each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, emotional, entertaining
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Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle (2011)
Plot Summary:
"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture. One of the commuters is Shoko (Miki Nakatani), an office worker in her 30s who lost her boyfriend to a younger colleague. There's also a college student (Erika Toda) who is so easily persuaded by her no good boyfriend. Other commuters include a grandmother & granddaughter, a house wife, a female high school student, and a female otaku college student. Although the train ride takes only 15 minutes between two stations, the lives of these commuters are changed as they interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Space & Time (2017)
Plot Summary:
As they quickly approach their thirtieth birthdays, academic physicist Siobhan and her photographer boyfriend Sean realize they failed to answer key questions about themselves and their relationship. Their devotion to each other is further tested when Siobhan decides to chase a research opportunity that would move them to Geneva. Realizing their lives are moving forward in opposite directions, the couple is forced to break-up in order to rediscover themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating
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How to Break Up with Your Douchebag (2017)
Plot Summary:
This comedy takes its cue from such female-centered films as "Bridesmaids" and "Trainwreck." Pic centers on a woman who makes a living from breaking up couples and decides to take on the task of splitting up her sister's relationship with her jerk of a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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I Do... Until I Don't (2017)
Plot Summary:
In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
Plot Summary:
The intricate and magical love story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem… time travel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing, non-linear, romantic drama
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The Ever After (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Action Replayy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Road to Mars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Emilia, who suffers from a terminal illness, embarks on a journey with her best friend Violeta. On their way they meet Mark, who claims to be an alien on a mission to destroy the planet for considering humanity (and love) a virus. However, Mark begins to doubt his mission falling in love with Emilia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Dad must be crazy! (2005)
Plot Summary:
On their scond honeymoon, a couple travels to the beaches of the Dominican Republic to reignite their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, slapstick comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Don't Blame Karma! (2022)
Plot Summary:
The travails of Sara, a frustrated fashion designer who blames karma for her bad luck. Fate will put her face to face with her sister, Lucy, who enjoys very different luck, and in a series of events and reunions that will lead her to make a radical decision.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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365 Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
This film tracks a hasty marriage through its first 365 days.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing