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Plot Summary:
Muhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back alleys, sharpening the knives of butcher shops and gourmet restaurants. Stubborn and tenacious, the boy forces his way under the man's wing. Within this hypnotic urban hell, what starts as an unstable and hesitant apprenticeship evolves into a struggle for self-control.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 94 min
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Samui Song (2017)
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A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Germany, Norway
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twisted
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Late Fragment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Faye, Kevin and Théo three troubled strangers, three lives fractured by thoughts and acts of violence. In the interactive feature film Late Fragment, their narratives interlock in a unique cinematic experience in which you play a creative and interactive role. Navigating through the movie, you uncover their stories, and their secrets, at will, controlling the flow and direction of the elaborate sequencing with a simple click.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: experimental, interactive
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A Family On Edge (2013)
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"A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship is forever changed. Shocking secrets from past and present create intensifying tension between the brothers who find themselves faced with a perilous choice, resulting in A Family On Edge. This highly realistic urban drama is layered with unpredictable twists and turns that appeal to an intergenerational audience. This is a must see for those love suspense, drama and action.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
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Golden Horseshoes (1989)
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Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble. During one long winter night, Youssef wanders in search of an emotional haven, prey to all the questions that flood his memory.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min
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Made in Israel (2001)
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Egon Schultz, the last Nazi criminal, is extradited by Syria to Israel. Hoffman, A wealthy businessman and son of a holocaust survivor, puts out a 2 million dollar contract on his head and a group of people turned Nazi-Hunters make their way through the heavy snows of Ramat Ha'Golan, to catch Schultz and bring him unharmed to the highest mountain, where Hoffman plans to kill "The Nazi Beast".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 113 min
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Ivin A. (1990)
Plot Summary:
Soldiers of internal troops Ivin A. standing on duty at night, could not shoot escapes bandit and murderer Prince Mishka. The explanatory he wrote that he refused to continue to dispose of another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
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Eyes of a Thief (2014)
Plot Summary:
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min
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Cold Lands (1999)
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A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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Children of Rage (1975)
Plot Summary:
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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14 Days with Victor (2010)
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Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star who wants to return to the ring. Anna is losing his father, after a physically devastating disease. Despite his youth, Victor lead the trio into a situation with unpredictable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sadistic
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Daydream Obsession 2: Infidelities (2004)
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In this sequel to the ever-so-campy, wanna-be gay soft porn, Daydream Obsession, the naked-body-obsessed Clayton (Joseph Dain), whose previous demented daydreams turned to kidnapping and bondage nearly destroyed his friendship in the last film with his straight roommate Brian, now turns his fixated attentions upon his boyfriend Luke, who he suspects is cheating on him. Will the relationship survive Clayton's delusional fantasies? Written by Joe Fowler.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Five Years (2013)
Plot Summary:
How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Nun and the Torture (1983)
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Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective
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Sand Storm (2016)
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A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
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3000 Nights (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min
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Surrogate (2008)
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Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The fictitious relationship between them exposes them both physically and emotionally and brings to surface repressed fears from the real world. The changes Eli goes through during the therapy, along with the secrets revealed, not only shake his own life, but also the life of his family. Between clinic walls, due to an "artificial" process, Eli learns how to love for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, sexy, queer cinema
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Wild (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young man sometimes acts like a dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Let The Old Folks Die (2017)
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Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
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Amazing Grace (1992)
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A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Ixe (1980)
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“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skillful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, gay cinema
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Rat Fever (2011)
Plot Summary:
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, queer cinema, weird
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Great Freedom (2021)
Plot Summary:
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure, emotional, talky, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema, cult film
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In Between (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, queer cinema
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The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, clever, serious, contemplative, exciting, captivating, offbeat, biting, suspense, weird
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Infiltration (2010)
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A tragical-comedy film story that follows a young non-combatant platoon with defective fitness. Set in "Bahad 4" in the 50's, the movie focuses mainly on two characters: Alon (Oz Zehavi), who believes he was accidentally sent to Bahad 4 and will soon be sent to join the Paratroopers. Avner (Guy Adler), believes that the army is the last thing that interests him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, bleak, serious, captivating, disturbing, biting, suspense
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Swans (2011)
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Manuel's mother, Petra, lives in Berlin. She is in a coma as a result of chemotherapy treatment. Tarso and Petra have been divorced since Manuel (17) was 3 years old. Manuel and Tarso come to Germany to be with Petra during her illness. They stay together in her old apartment. Another woman also occasionally lives there: Kim, a beautiful, enigmatic and aloof Asian. Petra's disease is of no interest to Manuel whereas Tarso visits Petra obsessively in the clinic. Sharing the same space with Tarso is hard for Manuel. Their previous relationship was based on 'visits only'. Manuel is overcome by a sense of emptiness. Meanwhile, Manuel develops an erotic desire for Kim, in fact a transsexual, who helps him discover Petra's body.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, contemplative, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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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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Aviva, My Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovered that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sentimental, semi serious
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Forgiveness (2006)
Plot Summary:
On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, uplifting, emotional, bleak, sincere, offbeat, serious, contemplative
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Porno (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three tales of the erotic: Two young ladies experiment with lesbianism, a handsome and wealthy socialite makes a beautiful woman patiently wait to make love to him, and a gorgeous, but controlling and dominating blind woman makes a hunky stud her sexual hostage in her swanky mansion home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic