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Plot Summary:
The plot of the movie unfolds through the testimonials of three young sisters: Uring, Luray, and Elya, who recount the grisly sexual molestation they experienced from their adoptive father Timo. The title was taken from the sisters' work as stone tillers in a quarry where most residents earn their living. Apart from being an alcoholic and gambler, Timo is a sex pervert.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspenseful, sentimental
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Way Back Home (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Santiago & Ana Bartolome are two sisters who have lived in separate lives for 12 long years. Jessie, though an excellent student, has grown to feel sorrow of Ana’s lost while Ana, not knowing that she’s an orphan, grew up in a far-flung fishing village. When they meet in a swimming competition, the Santiagos exert effort to bring Ana back. But when Ana returns home, Jessie feels more abandoned & lovelorn. With their relationship turning sour, Jessie’s life is terribly put in danger. In the end, the two sisters find home where their hearts truly lie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, psychological, disturbing
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The Killer Hides His Face (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague - Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) - patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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The Voice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician named Ariel who offers violin lessons to a child of the slums. Through the violin, the abused child Onyok is able to get back his voice from a mute, desensitized existence. A violin teacher and his student, a mute 7-year old abused child in a shelter, develop a friendship stemming from their love of music. Ariel discovers the immense talent of Onyok hiding behind a veneer of silence and pain caused by an unhappy and cruel father. In the developing relationship of teacher and student, both characters reveal more of themselves that otherwise may have remained unspoken. They discover each other's strengths and failures through the violin lessons.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, sentimental
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Wretched Lives (2001)
Plot Summary:
A poor Filipino woman (Assunta de Rossi) tries to take care of her mentally handicapped sister amid the poverty and violence of the shantytown in which they live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
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The Five of Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, psychological, touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, contemplative, gloomy
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Elena's Redemption (1996)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the true story of a maid who was either seduced or raped and made pregnant by her Chinese employer; the baby was either killed by the employer's wife or by her own hand, depending on who you talk to.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
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In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, masterpiece
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16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Plot Summary:
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effort, following a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1, and as the vocalist for the 1970s punk rock band The Skids.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, suspense, gloomy, freeze frame
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Four Nights with Anna (2008)
Plot Summary:
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, offbeat, weird
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Norte, the End of History (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: philosophical, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, slow cinema, contemplative, art house, black and white, cerebral
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Martha... Martha (2001)
Plot Summary:
Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Violence at Noon (1966)
Plot Summary:
Hakuchu no Torima" is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved -- only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women (Shino being the witness of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer). When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher (Akiko Koyama -- Mrs Oshima), in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, detective, weird
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Blind Shaft (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir, contemplative, crying, independent film
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Antonio's Secret (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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Minor (2013)
Plot Summary:
High school student Jen Guilarman lives in misery with her abusive mother and her mom's lesbian lover. Looking for some escape, she aims to join an all-girl gang which first requires her to undergo a sexual rite. Jen only has one man in mind, and that is her teacher Ariel Basco who has always been sympathetic with her. Suddenly, Jen cries rape and gets her teacher arrested. But behind her tragic fate is a dark truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
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Care (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Real Men (2003)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a web of systematic abuse that is threatening to destroy the lives of vulnerable children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, touching
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Place Vendome (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, detective
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The Collaborators (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two art students who, after a horrific event, are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, road movie
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Miami (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their father dies, Anna looks for and finds Angela. The fascinating, high-strung Angela asks the timid Anna to accompany her on tour and, before long, trouble from Angela’s past catches up to them and the sisters’ love is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Grahan (2001)
Plot Summary:
The widowed Chief Minister Jagdish Acharya lives an opulent lifestyle along with his daughter, Sunita and son, Sanjay. One day he gets a phone call from the Police Commissioner informing him that a woman has filed a FIR of rape against Sanjay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Circle of Atonement (2015)
Plot Summary:
A policeman discovers a love affair between his teenage daughter and her teacher which leads him back to an unsolved murder case he investigated 10 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Beaten (2004)
Plot Summary:
Justina is a fifteen years old girl who lives with her mother and stepfather in Mexico City. In her sexual-awakening, she starts flirting with the only man in her life, her stepfather, causing the accidental murder of her mother and stepfather. Shocked, she runs away from home, crazy, just dressed with her nightgown. Ivan, a police detective who practices torture as daily routine and is reduced to the rank of street cop, looks for her all night long.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir
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Mean Creek (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense, independent film, captivating, emotional, sad, tense
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The Enemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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By The Grace of God (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, social, independent film, crying, queer cinema, cult film
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Pericle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Kings of South Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it past the velvet rope.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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