Artsy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant artsy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out artsy, weird, art house, inspirational, psychological and serious films and TV shows about / with love, kiss, love story, existentialism, husband wife relationship, sex, death, love and romance, couples and relationships plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as artsy: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Tree of Life (2011), Equals (2015), The Fountain (2006), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Perfect Sense (2011), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Another Earth (2011), Too Old to Die Young (2019), The Blood Lady (2018).
Best films
New films
Cold War (2018) | 7.5 | |
Terminal (2018) | 5.3 | |
Isle of Dogs (2018) | 7.8 | |
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 6.5 | |
Roma (2018) | 7.7 |
List of artsy movies
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, psychological, artsy, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, voyeurism, obsession, sex, secret society, disguise, orgy, adultery, infidelity, lust, nudity, nude ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time:
1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, america, usa, china
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33K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Style:
artsy, touching, intellectual, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
utopia, relationships, post apocalypse, dystopic future, depression, forbidden sex, loneliness, genetics, brutality, character study, distopia, love story ...
Time:
future
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248K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style:
surreal, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
metaphysics, spirituality, afterlife, cancer, buddhism, immortality, surrealism, multiple storylines, obsession, loneliness, love, death ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, tibet, latin america, europe, central america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style:
atmospheric, artsy, melancholic, stylized, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, goth, love, supernatural, eternal life, immortality, blood, vampirism, family relations, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place:
tangier morocco, detroit
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around ...
Style:
artsy, romantic, thought provoking, sensual, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pandemic, love story, sex scene, end of the world, epidemic, love, chaos, female nudity, love affair, human existence, blindness, natural disaster ...
Time:
year 2011, distant future, future
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, iran
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
artist, polyamory, love triangle, women, art, summer, love and romance, love, bohemian life, love story, painter, open relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, europe, catalonia
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100K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style:
surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot:
parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 758 min.
TV show
Story:
The numb existences of Martin Jones, a police officer with secrets to hide, and Jesus, a traumatized avenging son, collide in a ghostly Los Angeles where several ruthless criminal gangs fight for their turf and dictate who lives and who dies.
Style:
neo noir, art house, artsy, suspense, bloody ...
Plot:
vigilantism, social satire, double life, gang war, police brutality, criminal underworld, sex with a minor, shooting, torture, criminal, mexican immigrant, mother son relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
18th century, The Russian Empire. The series tells the life story of Darya Saltykova, who was called Saltychikha by serfs. The landowner brutally tortured about one and half hundreds peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was ...
Style:
artsy, sadistic, atmospheric, baroque
Plot:
peasant, life sentence, twists and turns, death sentence, death of husband, sadist, torture, convent, loveless marriage, pardon, sadism, sadistic killer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany, France, Spain, USA, Belgium
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspense, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, psychopath, macabre, perfume, genius, insanity, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, master apprentice relationship, sense of smell, secret formula ...
Time:
18th century, year 2006, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, barcelona, persia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Style:
artsy, art house, atmospheric, visual, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, multiple storylines, femme fatale, serendipity, food, breakup, storytelling, relationships, love story, life philosophy, fall in love, dating ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, california, asia, taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, offbeat, psychological, artsy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, age difference, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, alienation, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, self discovery, relationships, adultery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, america, yale university ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer... The film is based on a ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, artsy, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
femme fatale, fatal attraction, seduction, sexy woman, female nudity, love triangle, manipulation, infidelity, sex scene, storytelling, dystopia, sex ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in the 1960's, high school student Toru Watanabe loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the ...
Style:
romantic, artsy, visually appealing, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
suicide, teenager, japanese school, love story, coming of age, young man, young lovers, love triangle, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, sex ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, east asia, asia, japan
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291K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style:
surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place:
ireland, greece, hellas
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205K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, nudity, sexual relations, masturbation, suicide attempt, sex scene, lifestyle, erotica ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style:
independent film, sad, surreal, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
poverty, climate change, children, global warming, father daughter relationship, childhood, community, magic realism, child protagonist, coming of age, flood, single father ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa, southern usa
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699K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, serious, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, adult
Plot:
car chase, heist, mechanic, danger, tough heroes, lone wolves, organized crime, loner, revenge, chases and races, robbery, character study ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, usa
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86K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Style:
philosophical, confusing, futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot:
space travel, space station, space and aliens, afterlife, mysterious planet, outer space, planet, astronaut, trapped in space, space exploration, alien contact, space ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, future
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, new york
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25K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot:
murder, double life, disguise, master criminal, waitress, female secret agent, femme fatale, hitman, murderer, conspiracy, betrayal, money ...
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665K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, relationship problems, psychology, human nature, unlikely relationship ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip ...
Style:
art house, psychological, artsy, post-horror, mindfuck ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, loss, grief, death of husband, legacy, loneliness, piano, paranormal, loss of husband, sadness, haunting, love ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, future, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style:
humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, love, parenthood, fish out of water, lifestyle, society, relationship problems, profanity, relationships, hipster, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that ...
Style:
melancholic, artsy, stylized, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
farce, existentialism, life philosophy, art, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, theater, writer's life, sex scene, gilded age ...
Time:
1900s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
america, new york, usa
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40K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, cerebral ...
Plot:
reincarnation, deja vu, older woman younger man relationship, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, wedding, life & death, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
persia, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be ...
Style:
emotional, artsy, romantic, philosophical, captivating ...
Plot:
love story, destiny, opposites attract, obsession, bank robbery, coincidence, relationships, love and romance, criminal heroes, fall in love, couples, haunted by the past ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, australia, sydney australia, europe
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