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Plot Summary:
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, scary, controversial
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A Gap in the Skin (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Who Never Lived (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life undergoes a sudden transformation when routine testing finds out that he is HIV positive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Sophiiiie! (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood and Bones (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes a fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, has many mistresses and children and shows no respect to anyone. Later he closes the factory, lending out the money with high interest and becomes a loan shark. His hateful behavior remains unchanged to his last breath, alone in North Korea. The film is told from the perspective of Masao, his legitimate son by his abused and degraded wife, who knows nothing about his father other than to fear him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
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Brava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s lover who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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Lazaro's Girlfriend (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores tries to survive with a broken heart, but his sympathy and sensuality will make adjusting to life in Madrid and try to exceed the Lazarus drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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Backwater (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is set in a quiet riverside town, where 17-year-old Tooma lives with his father and his father’s lover. Tooma witnesses his father’s sadistic behavior towards his lover and soon finds himself following in his father’s footsteps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Communication & Lies (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film about a man and one woman who do absurdly crazy things. But although their shocking behaviors are outrageous, but it remains not just as some spectacles. When the communication between two comes to fail, it suddenly arouses subtle sorrows.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
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Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Plot Summary:
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Guilt (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, experimental, independent film, silent, silent film
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Wilderness: Part Two (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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Wilderness: Part One (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Perfect Education 6 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the escape, he meets a girl named Akiko. He hides in her house. Later on, Fumiya and Akiko fall in love and have sex. After that, he finds that the house owner Shin kidnapped Akiko whem she was a little girl and has kept her in the house for over a decade. Fumiya is determined to take her away from Shin's brutal confinement. A battle of wills between jailer, prisoner and accidental savior begins….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tropical Manila (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kim-Dusik, who committed a murder in Korea, fled to Manila and has lived there nearly 15 years. He lives with his Filipino wife, Medusa, and their 15-year old son, Philip. Dusik, his irresistible yearning for his mother, turns into violence inflicted on his son, and sexual abuse inflicted on his wife. He only looks forward to going back to Korea as the 15 year statute of limitations runs out. As Philip grows up he confronts his father about his mistreatment of his mother. Philip, in spite of himself, takes after his father's violent behavior. Medusa finds out that Dusik is leaving for Korea in a few months and begs him to take Philip with him to raise him as a Korean.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rope Cosmetology (1978)
Plot Summary:
Kanako encounters her former ex-, Tomoe, at an exhibition of her husband's paintings. Eventually Kanako learns that Tomoe has taken lessons "to be a bitch" for the eccentric artist's BDSM interests. This idea appeals to Kanako, so she decides to learn to be a good dog too. When Kanakos husband finds out what's happening, he becomes so angry that he throws her on a local dump, but eventually he puts a leash on her and begins to appreciate his new pet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: pink cinema
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The Creature (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dog Lay Afternoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, controversial, transgressive, banned, sexploitation film, banned film
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Woman, Woman (1979)
Plot Summary:
Recently turned into a widow, Alice (Helena Ramos) goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos (Carlos Casan), but falls in love with Marta (Petty Pesce). However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange feelings in her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sexual
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Elon Doesn't Believe in Death (2016)
Plot Summary:
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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The Allegation (2021)
Plot Summary:
25 defendants, 300 trial days and a legal scandal that has gone down in the history of jurisprudence: In this thrilling legal drama, bestselling author Ferdinand von Schirach transports the so-called "Worms Trials", a German legal scandal from the nineties into the present. The result is a gripping, current legal drama about hysteria in social media, collective anger and how the hunger for revenge can overlook the victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 225 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Choice (2015)
Plot Summary:
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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The Catholic School (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, period piece
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Blue Spring (2001)
Plot Summary:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Liar Game: Reborn (2012)
Plot Summary:
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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