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Plot Summary:
This is the portrait of two recently released prisoners (Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer) who learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat, queer cinema
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On the Other Hand, Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious client of private eye Don Strachey pays him cash to tail a woman who turns out to be an undercover officer; an older lesbian couple are victims of threats and vandalism; an old flame of his lover Tim shows up to support the older couple; neighbors are angry at the couple for refusing to sell out to a developer; and, parents are angry at one of the couple, Dorothy, for being a good guidance counselor to gay teens. Her partner, Edith, wants to move away; Dorothy is adamant about staying. When someone dies in a fire in their barn, the stakes get higher. Don, who does not believe in coincidence, gives the police enough information to stay on their good side as he pursues the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, detective, queer cinema
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Cold Blooded (2012)
Plot Summary:
A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
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My Daughter, My Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie Dagenais is a 19 year old girl studying to be a lawyer. New to the city of Montreal, she will soon discover the world of porn. One day, her father (Michel Côté) comes across her picture on the Internet and wants to find her and before she makes what he thinks is a mistake. The story goes from past to present, when a police officer investigates the death of Max, a man who Nathalie knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, sexual, sexy
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Sea Without Shore (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of mid-winter forests, into spheres of the subconscious, initiated by unknown forces. There is no return. The stream-of-consciousness narration, a collage of poetic fragments, features words by 16th century lesbian poet Katherine Philips, 19th century fin de siècle poets Renée Vivien and Algernon Charles Swinburne whose agnostic, visionary poetry lend the film a hypnotic quality.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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A Single Shot (2013)
Plot Summary:
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, gloomy, hot
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A Wolf at the Door (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband, Bernardo, to the station for questioning. From that point on, the film takes increasingly sinister turns as it delves into the events that led to the girl’s kidnapping. With plot twists that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats, A Wolf at the Door is a darkly disturbing journey into the extreme limits of the human capacity for obsession and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, twisted, suspense, dark, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful
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Katalin Varga (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, road movie, dark, art house, disturbing, gloomy
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The Fish Child (2009)
Plot Summary:
A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, captivating, surreal, serious, sexy, non-linear, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Blind Trust (1986)
Plot Summary:
A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bastards (2008)
Plot Summary:
A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, contemplative, hispanic, crime drama, slow cinema
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The Box (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her share of trouble and they start up a tenuous relationship. Then there's a murder and things get complicated. It's noir so the plot isn't the main focus but the mood of the film is consistent and properly downbeat. The characters can't seem to shake the fate that hangs over them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Traceless (2010)
Plot Summary:
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious
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Tru Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
TRU, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long...that is, until she meets ALICE, 60, a beautiful widow, who has come to town at the last minute to visit her daughter, SUZANNE, 35, a too-busy corporate lawyer and Tru's friend. Alice and Tru begin to forge an unlikely friendship...and more. Suzanne, who has a deeply conflicted relationship with her mother and a complicated past with Tru, becomes increasingly alarmed at the growing bond between Tru and her mother. Tensions escalate after Suzanne witnesses an intimate moment between them. She tries to sabotage the budding romance, but it backfires, as Tru Love is hard to contain.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, sexy, humorous, semi serious, sexual, queer cinema
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2:22 (2008)
Plot Summary:
The plan was easy; the job was not. On a snowy night a tight crew of four criminals plan to pull off a routine heist. When things go horribly wrong, friendship, loyalty and trust are pushed to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, crime drama
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Chained Heat II (1993)
Plot Summary:
An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, grindhouse, sensual, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic
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Night Zoo (1987)
Plot Summary:
Marcel (Gilles Maheu) emerges from prison in hopes of a reconciliation with his dying father Albert (Roger Le Bel) in this thrilling crime drama. Raped in prison, Marcel encounters a homosexual cop involved with drug smuggling who presses him for information and sex. Marcel fights his way out of the cop's lecherous advances and is reunited with his father. The two catch up on old times on a fishing trip, and Albert reveals he has both money and cocaine stashed away for Marcel's return. Marcel and his homosexual cellmate later corner the crooked cops in a sleazy hotel to exact revenge. Julie (Lynne Adams) is Marcel's former girlfriend who works in a sex club peep show. Gay and straight scenes of rough sex permeate this film which marks the directorial debut of Jean-Claude Lauzon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Her Husband's Betrayal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley leaves for his next job, Cathy follows him...all the way to another family's home! When Cathy storms in to confront him, she finds a dead body and receives a call from Riley saying she must confess to the crime or her son will be killed. With the police hot on her tail, Cathy goes on the run to unearth the truth before it is too late to save her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
The body a teenage girl is discovered in a field of sunflowers. At the same time a travelling salesman watches the events unfold on television, whilst in the small village of Angosto the discovery of a prehistoric cave brings excitement and the arrival of an experienced geologist, his young fiancé and his assistant. The town police chief plans his retirement, while his deputy dreams of escaping the boredom of his marriage and his job... Through a series of shocking events, the lives of these people become entangled in a web of violence, betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, crime drama, thrilling, tense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Plot Summary:
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic, campy
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The Hunter (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, islamic, slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, historical drama, queer cinema, period drama
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Kill for Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s her dad. For Amanda, it’s a stalkery ex-boyfriend. But problems can be solved and, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. In other words, Kill for Me, I kill for you.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, sexual, independent film, erotic, sexy, queer cinema
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Show Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
When two squeegee kids descend upon Sarah and her luxury sedan, the fuse is lit on a tense cat and mouse tale of captors and captives. Sarah is forced to continue her trip to an isolated cottage where the twisted trio bait and entice one another in a reckless search for truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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The Owls (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, bringing tension and discord. Little do they know that this mysterious stranger has a plan which includes all four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Replay (2001)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, weird
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Whitewash (2013)
Plot Summary:
The brutality of winter and the power of the mind are aptly portrayed in this dark comedy set in Northern Quebec. Bruce (Thomas Haden Church) is merely trying to survive a harsh winter when he meets Jean. Conflict leads to an accidental death, and Bruce finds himself in a complicated and unexpected place. Grappling with his guilt, Bruce creates a prison from which he cannot escape. Haden Church perfectly utilizes his comic talent in this wry, well-crafted film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, mind bending, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Curling (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in a rural Quebec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, slow cinema, aesthetic, gloomy
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.45 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, sexy, erotic, serious, realistic
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Salmonberries (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young orphaned woman, named Kotzebue, is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue (K.d. Lang) is helped by a east-german librarian (Rosel Zech), whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Plot Summary:
Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, an old man, who live with his dead wife and a man, who beat his wife regularly, are just one part of this neighbourhood. When one of the neighbors falls in love with Iva, the situation escalates - with the result of three dead people at the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, lgbt cinema, suspense, neo noir, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious