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Plot Summary:
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other's lives irreversibly. For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her grueling captivity forces the angelic African, Yaya, to fight for her freedom - a dangerous fight in which he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for except her vengeance but as it turns out, it's that same vengeance that brings love back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonder boy, Lukas, runs away from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realizes that their mutual passion for music damages their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, sad, iconic
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Autumn Ball (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young writer called Mati is stalking his ex-wife, while also trying to make unsuccessful passes at other women. Augusti is a barber living a dreary bachelor life who forms a bond with little girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as pedophilia. Laura, a single mom, tears up over sappy soap operas, but refuses real-life advances from clueless men, because her ability to trust has been ruined by her violent drunk of an ex-husband. Maurer, the architect, worries about the wellbeing of humanity, but ignores his own wife Ulvi, who in turn looks for solace in the arms of a coatroom attendant named Theo. Women have always liked Theo, but due to his low social status, they don't take him seriously. All of these people might inhabit identical tower blocks, but they couldn't feel more alienated from each other if they tried.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, anthology, atmospheric, brutal, sad, art house, profound, dark comedy
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Cargo (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Live! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Anna is a vital woman who is married and has two daughters. She picks up her old passion of writing again after frequent requests by a colleague and a friend, but she had not foreseen the consequences of family and friends reading her stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, serious, stylized
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Kin (2000)
Plot Summary:
While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by the local community.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, emotional, erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, touching, sexy
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I Am Curious (1968)
Plot Summary:
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, sexy, disturbing, cult classic, erotic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, controversial, stylized
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Captive (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, political, bleak
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Marfa Girl 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A family living in Marfa, Texas attempts to pull themselves back together after a horrific tragedy. This provocative sequel to Larry Clark's film Marfa Girl, shows us a group of people ready to escape their current realities - no matter the cost. Gritty, unrelenting and powerful, auteur Clark once again delivers a bleak landscape of sex, drugs and boredom amongst the residents of a dead-end Texas Border town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house, sensual
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The Final Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, independent film
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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Octavia (1982)
Plot Summary:
Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Us (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, sexy, bleak
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Woman with Pierced Nipples (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman share in some bizarre and masochistic sex-games, including chain-bondage, shoe-licking, watersports, and car-antenna f!cking. There is a side-plot about a female slavery ring where the captors are imprisoned in cages to be used at the will of a group of private sex-club patrons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Dangerous Parking (2007)
Plot Summary:
Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that are destroying him, his career and the people who care for him. But Mother Nature has other tests of strength and character in store for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Off Hours (2011)
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You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to figure out why you're here, whether you want to stay, and how to leave.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, mumblecore, gloomy, independent film
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Hours of Light (2004)
Plot Summary:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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King of Thieves (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
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A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to head to Paris, where they'll be illegal aliens but can at least live openly as a couple. To avoid arousing suspicion until they arrive in Paris, Mohsen and Hassan keep their distance while traveling, and during a train stop, Mohsen helps a sixty-ish women, Yolande, with her luggage. The two strike up a conversation and she clearly enjoys his company; over dinner, she offers to help him find work in town and let him stay at her apartment. It's clear to Yolande that Mohsen is an illegal immigrant, but she doesn't realize that he's gay, and he finds himself wondering if he should stay with Hassan or live with Yolande, where he would not have love but would enjoy safety, security and could easily become a French citizen through marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, queer cinema
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Concrete Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger generations, and the ways we do it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, black and white, erotic, queer cinema
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Fraulein (2006)
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Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, experimental, psychological, psychedelic, surreal, captivating, slow cinema, philosophical
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Undulant Fever (2014)
Plot Summary:
A female student falls for a senior, but the senior not really for her. He is willing to go to bed with her, but doesn’t feel love. The couple embark on a painful yet passionate experiment. Based on the legendary book by Kei Nakazawa.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, controversial
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Blue Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart when he has an extramarital fling with an actress and the local Los Angeles vice cops close in to make a bust.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Love Battles (2013)
Plot Summary:
A couple’s verbal sparring intensifies with shoving, punching and wrestling, escalating to the point where their frequent fighting sessions become real love battles….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, captivating, psychological, emotional, contemplative, talky, stylized, semi serious, sexual
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Another Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Delta (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But when his sister moves in with him and the two begin a romance, there are tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, bleak, stylized, gloomy, sexual, independent film
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Counterparts (2007)
Plot Summary:
Teacher Anne and policeman Georg are thought of as the perfect couple. However, appearances are deceptive: one of them is covered with scars and bruises. But which one is the abuser?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious, suspenseful
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Cal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence. It is not a warm homecoming as his sick mother remains stubbornly homophobic and wants nothing to do with the now openingly gay Cal while his battered Auntie Jane, now living in a run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually seduce her nephew. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his help. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible. An intense tale of a family mired in poverty, angry and lost but still searching for love, respect and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense, gloomy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Personal Belongings (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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The Wild Ones (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak
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Let's Talk About Sex (1994)
Plot Summary:
Four women filmmakers examine sexuality in this anthology. Segment 1 is entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and is the story of an aspiring actress whose day job is as a phone-sex operator. Tiring of listening to callers' fantasies, she finds a caller who is willing to listen to hers. Segment 2 is called "Taboo Palor" and tells the story of two lesbians, who, for variety, pick up a man for sex. He ends up getting more than he bargained for. Segment 3 is "Wonton Soup." Here an Australian-Chinese man tries to rekindle his affair with a Chinese woman by returning to their roots: both in the kitchen and in the bedroom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, anthology, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual