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Plot Summary:
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: existential
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Complete Unknown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, psychological, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological thriller
Similar in 82%
Mitte 30 (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Black Candles (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, lovecraft, sexploitation film
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Clara Sola (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions which have dominated her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spiritual, existential
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Arianna (2015)
Plot Summary:
Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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No One (2017)
Plot Summary:
Vera is a young psychologist who visits her father's cottage in the mountains after he passes away. Her boyfriend Tony surprisingly arrives together with her best friend Tanya, they have a secret affair and they are about to confess to Vera. Meanwhile Niki and Lily appear out of the blue. Niki is a wealthy man who has bought all of the properties but Vera's land. However, he wants to buy it at any price. Vera expects support and compassion but over the following days, her seemingly settled life will shatter, with surprising consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Rose Plays Julie (2019)
Plot Summary:
An adopted Dublin girl sets out to find her birth mother in London, despite knowing the woman has no desire to meet with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sentimental, touching, humorous, disturbing, suspenseful, art house
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On Body and Soul (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, art house, erotic, psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, touching
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Angel Express (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fever (1971)
Plot Summary:
After falling from a boat on the Parana River, a woman (Isabel Sarli) spends time in the jungle with five rough men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Bright Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return intact. Faced with an outcome that will upset their delicate balance of happiness, the world offers them a bizarre opportunity to correct it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, serious, captivating, erotic, queer cinema
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Above Us Only Sky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, sincere
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Mandingo Sex Addict (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to earn the trust of the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, enigmatic, crying, independent film, black comedy, exotic, cult film
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The All-American Girl (1973)
Plot Summary:
Debbie's boyfriend Bobby has left for Guatemala for three months and Debbie is expecting a boring summer. But then she hasn't considered her neighbours and their 15-year old son Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Treat Me Like Fire (2018)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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Autumn Lights (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, touching, independent film
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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978)
Plot Summary:
Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke Sommer). As the trial draws to a close, Charles reflects on the events leading up to the terrible incident.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film
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Kamasutra - The Indian Art of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Learn the thousands year old art of love and give your partner or your partner more sensuality. This DVD takes you into a mysterious and exotic world full of thrilling eroticism in which your dreams come true. Various sex techniques and positions, but also wisdom around the topic partnership will enrich your love life, but also your couple relationship. The beguiling images flood and beautiful music will enchant your senses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, art house
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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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Equus (1977)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, surreal, sexual, talky, controversial, tricky
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No One's Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize him and got the Muslim name – Haris. Contrary to most predictions, he was developing and making friends quickly. When the war in BiH broke out in 1992, Haris got the letter from local Bosnian authorities which asked for his immediate return. Upon returning to BiH, he had nowhere to go. While wandering aimlessly, he came across a group of soldiers that gave him a gun and took him with them.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating
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Teorema (1968)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, depressing, experimental
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The Inheritors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, allegory
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, captivating, independent film, sexual
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A Lustful Mind (1986)
Plot Summary:
Alessio, a young man from a well to do family, has been mute since the death of his mother two years ago. His father, who has subsequently remarried, sends him to his sister-in-law's house in the country to recuperate. While staying there Alessio has erotic fantasies concerning his stepmother, his aunt and a young art restorer working on the estate, all of whom his father is sexually involved with.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house
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Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, disturbing, art house, psychological, sexy, controversial, sensual, philosophical, surreal