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Plot Summary:
When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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A Brutal Game (1983)
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The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: art house, hot
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Fallen Heroes (2007)
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Fallen Heroes is a 2007 Italian crime-drama film directed by Paolo Franchi. It entered the competition at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Wonderful Crook (1975)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 112 min
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13 French Street (2007)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Heile Welt (2007)
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Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min
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Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: philosophical, spiritual, experimental
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The Stranger in Me (2008)
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A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)
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Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Intimidades en un cuarto de baño (1991)
Plot Summary:
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Up Against Them All (2004)
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A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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A Crime (1993)
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"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Rule 34 (2022)
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Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in BDSM-related activities, leading her into a series of conflicts dominated by violence and eroticism.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The House (2022)
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Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
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The Sniper (1977)
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Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Der Skorpion (1997)
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Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Euphoria (2006)
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They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
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Women's Prison (1974)
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This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexploitation film
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Confessions of the Sex Slaves (1977)
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The plot has pretty, middle-class Caucasian girls (college students, runaways etc.) being kidnapped right of the streets of Zurich and Montreal(!), and after being beaten, raped, and hooked on heroin, they are sent to Amsterdam to work as zombified strippers and prostitutes in a nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. A female reporter is investigating the disappearance of one girl and ends up on the trail of the slavers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Happy End (2011)
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They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy
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Silvester Countdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
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The Illusions (2009)
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A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Beijo na Boca (1982)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Erotic Passion (1981)
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Since her parents' death, 19-year old Della lives with her aunt Marsha and Andrew, her old husband. One morning Marsha has sex with Alex, her husband's doctor. Right afterwords, Della seduces him at the beach while Marsha watches them from her window. The two women have a fight which results to Della leaving the house. She finds refuge at Maria's (a friend of hers) place but as it appears she is missing and the house is inhabited by Aris and Samantha. Della makes a pass at Aris, managing to infuriate Samantha. In the meanwhile, the local authorities are investigating the murder of Aris' business partner, Steve Brynner. When all trace leads to Aris, Della suggests a swap: She'll travel to Italy to get fake passports for the couple as long as they accept to murder Marsha.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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In Your Arms (2015)
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When Maria (Lisa Carlehed) meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish - to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
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Jackie Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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Surrogate (2017)
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Jane Martin (25 years old), young graduate, is recruited by the Doctor Faye's clinical, "the clinical for healthy sex". Through her maturity, self-confidence and great sexual experience, she requires the obvious qualities to become a good therapist. But Jane does not respect all the rules with her patients and becomes more closer with them. Ignoring the warnings of Dr. Faye, Jane puts her patients and herself in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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My Rabbit is the Best (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Architect (2008)
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Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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