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Plot Summary:
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, suspense, psychological, realistic, rough, serious, tense, captivating, mumblecore, adult animation
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Winter Spirits (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1920s Japan the boy Akeno lives without his father, but he has a mysterious friend. When Akeno gets kidnapped by soldiers, his friend sets out to return him home. But soon they both realize, something mysterious happened in their lives.
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Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, touching, captivating, suspense, ambiguous ending, crying, anime
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Nina (2004)
Plot Summary:
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Animation, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, anime
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A Quiet Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Danish border.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: mystical, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Princess (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, anime, cult classic, crying, 2d animation
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The Labyrinth of Grisaia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yuuji makes the unexpected decision to pursue promotion within the institution he works for. He meets with JB to discuss the documents he submitted for review as a part of the promotion process, documents pertaining to his own past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, adult animation
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012)
Plot Summary:
Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, serious, stylized, tense, suspense, suspenseful, offbeat, compilation film, dark fantasy
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The King of Pigs (2011)
Plot Summary:
After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyeong-Min kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Seok. Jong-Seok now works as a ghostwriter for an autobiography, but he dreams of writing his own novel. For the first time in 15 years they meet. Kyeong-Min and Jong-Seok both hide their own current situations and begin to talk about their middle school days.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, adult animation, disturbing, depressing, crying, 2d animation
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Tehran Taboo (2017)
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The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, disturbing, social, adult animation, art house
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Golgo 13: Queen Bee (1998)
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Based on Takao Saito's graphic novel, Golgo 13 is Japan's most celebrated and notorious assassin, and a man as adept with a rifle as he is with the ladies. He meets his match here in Queen Bee, the leader of a South American liberation army, whom he must kill before she can assassinate a popular presidential candidate. However, once Golgo 13 penetrates the Queen's hive, he realizes that the machinations behind the planned assassination are more complex than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, mecha, rough, realistic, surprise ending
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The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
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In the middle of October 1998, Enjou Tomoe is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Ryougi Shiki. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days after the incident there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, psychotronic, captivating, suspense, manga, adult animation, dark drama, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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Alois Nebel (2011)
Plot Summary:
A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, adult animation, atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, noir, experimental, claymation, anime
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The Fake (2013)
Plot Summary:
A convict returns to his home town to torturing again his family and face his neighbors trying to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, realistic, thought provoking, adult animation, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Angel Dog (2011)
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This heart warming film is about a dog named Cooper who is the lone survivor of a terrible car accident. Jake, a family patriarch, loses his wife and children in the accident. Not being a dog person, Jake is angry and resentful toward the dog for even surviving. However, eventually Jake bonds with Cooper, and this bond ends up being the one thing that gets him out of bed in the morning, the one thing that helps him to go on living after such a tragic loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, crying, uplifting
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Persepolis (2007)
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: adult animation, political, thought provoking, black and white, serious, realistic, depressing, social, anime, visually stunning
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My Dog Tulip (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: adult animation, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, anime, stylized, independent film, 2d animation
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The Professional: Golgo 13 (1983)
Plot Summary:
Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed Golgo 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you're on his hit list, you're already dead. Always hired on his reputation alone, Golgo never breaks a contract. Can he survive the combined forces of the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon and the U.S. Army? Has the nameless agent finally met his match against the superhuman powers of the Snake and the twin evils of the psychopathic mercenaries, Gold and Silver?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, bloody, mind bending, mecha, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Plot Summary:
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, intense, harsh, adult animation, suspense, computer animated, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending
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Felidae (1994)
Plot Summary:
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, neo noir, detective, slasher, tense, offbeat, serious, surreal, psychological
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The Lost Village (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady bus tour of young men and women are headed to an elusive village called Nanakimura. A destination where people can partake in an utopian existence, free of the world's obstacles... or so goes the rumor. Heading deep into the mountains, the bus is carrying 30 different individuals, each harboring their own expectations and troubled hearts... What they had arrived to was an uninhabited village with lingering, faint scents of life and it was falling apart. Just what is the secret of Nanakimura?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, psychological thriller, crying, tension
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Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Plot Summary:
Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on animation enabled Folman to illustrate their personal memories and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, disturbing, adult animation, psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, surreal, political
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Monster (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, rough, manga, adult animation, depressing
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 301000
Genere: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: depressing, anime, touching, heartbreaking, sad, emotional, harsh, dramatic, sentimental, tear jerker
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The Plague Dogs (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: adult animation, disturbing, heartbreaking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, psychedelic, offbeat, depressing
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Metropia (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, stylized, adult animation, exciting, atmospheric, serious, dark, anime, apocalyptic
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Paprika (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical, enigmatic, atmospheric, mind bending, mindfuck, adult animation
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Perfect Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, tense, realistic, disturbing
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: bleak, stylized, atmospheric, talky, rough, suspenseful, exciting, anime, realistic, epic
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, epic, bleak, suspenseful, rough, anime, stylized, adult animation, emotional, saga
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Death Parade (2015)
Plot Summary:
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling new series where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: your life is on the line.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, manga, suspense, adult anime, adult animation
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, mindfuck, adult animation