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Plot Summary:
Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is enjoying being in control of the farm. And then she hires the handsome stranger who helped her carry the new incubator for chicks from the bus and across the canal. In the house by the canal with the job of raising and lowering the bridge for passing boats lives the widow's envious sister-in-law along with husband and nubile daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying, freeze frame
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The Unvanquished (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, french noir
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This Sweet Sickness (1977)
Plot Summary:
French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a pathetic creature, motivated by humiliation and sexual inadequacy; thus the emphasis is not on his heinous crimes but on his warped personality. The director's noirish decision to stage much of the action in the dark, or the rain, or both, is a function of David's deep depression. As in his other films, Miller uses water as an omen of evil; you've seldom seen a more foreboding swimming pool than the one in This Sweet Sickness. The film was originally released as Dites-lui que je l'aime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Scene of the Crime (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, gay cinema
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The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Plot Summary:
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, suspense, french noir
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Madness (1980)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, controversial, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, freeze frame, poliziottesco, sexploitation film
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The Bridesmaid (2004)
Plot Summary:
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, realistic, gloomy
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The Burned Barns (1973)
Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, crying
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Someone I Loved (2009)
Plot Summary:
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Monsieur Hire (1989)
Plot Summary:
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man simple life becomes more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, psychological, detective, psychological thriller, mind bending, offbeat, anthology, serious
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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The Swimming Pool (1969)
Plot Summary:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, inspirational, retro, sexy, slasher, anthology, art house, technicolor, crime drama
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Farewell, Friend (1968)
Plot Summary:
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as the attempt to crack the safe's combination.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: retro, manga, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, crying, detective, freeze frame
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Joy House (1964)
Plot Summary:
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French Riviera.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, manga, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, french noir
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The Bridge (1999)
Plot Summary:
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far enough away that he'll only be able to come home on weekends. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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Swann in Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She seems to enjoy his company, for which he pays, but considers herself free to socialise and sleep where she pleases, particularly with a rival called de Forcheville. Swann’s passion turns to consuming jealousy, which leads him eventually to accept the social stigma of marrying her. One old friend, the overtly gay Charlus (Alain Delon), stays sympathetic.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, neurotic, sexy, period drama
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The Last Day (2004)
Plot Summary:
At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine his feelings when Louise develop a liaison of her own with his childhood friend Mathieu.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, surprise ending, crying, sexy
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Claire's Knee (1970)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, spiritual, existential, sensitive, talky, relaxing, sexy, clever, humorous
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L'Eclisse (1962)
Plot Summary:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: art house, philosophical, black and white, surreal, neorealism, cerebral, visual, bleak, realistic, contemplative
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2 Masks for Alexa (1971)
Plot Summary:
Curd Jurgens as the betrayed husband is incredibly expressive and believable; Rosabla Neri, as the philandering Alexa, delivers her usual thoughtful performance and, in doing so, makes her potentially cardboard cut-out character multi-dimensional, and Juan Luis Galiardo, as Alexa'a heartthrob Pierre, also cares enough about his craft that he avoids the trappings of a potentially stereotypical character and, like Neri, makes him real and full of depth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychotronic, freeze frame, grindhouse
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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Indian Summer (1972)
Plot Summary:
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, poliziottesco
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Labor Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sentimental, serious, captivating, romantic, intense, romantic drama
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Those Who Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Last Train (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Scorpio (1973)
Plot Summary:
Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. One day, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross -- and leaves him no choice but to obey. Scorpio is cold-blooded and very systematic; however, as a veteran agent, Cross knows many tricks. He can also rely upon a network of unusual personal contacts, some dating back to the troubled years preceding WWII. A lethal game of hide-and-seek is programmed, but what are the true motives of every single player?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political thriller, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, tragic ending, detective
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Rebecca (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, gothic, suspenseful, enigmatic, intellectual, period piece, romantic drama, thrilling, psychological thriller
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Le Samurai (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, visual, meditative, witty, art house