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 6.4
 850
Baal (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through ...
Plot: social outcast, wandering, poem, sexuality, poet, rudeness, bourgeoisie, morality, outsider, forest, pregnancy, rape ...
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 7.6
 10K
The Scrounger (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style: tense, talky, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, drug addiction, redemption, family life, actor, alcohol abuse, actor's life, lifestyle, human nature, morphine ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, 1910s, year 1912
Place: connecticut
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My Life to Live (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, gunfight, pimp, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, women, european, great ending, solitude, existentialism ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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The Fire Within (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style: philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot: suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcoholism, drinking, solitude, character study, european, loneliness, mental illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe, versailles
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 7.3
 7K
Gertrud (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert ...
Style: black and white, serious, slow cinema, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: love, biopic, european, nordic, girl, passion, social outcast, modernism, art, divorce, women, spirituality ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
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 7.2
 31K
The Gopher (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, allegory, experimental ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, murder, boy, revenge, rape, religion, suicide, church, violence, russian roulette, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1970
Place: latin america, mexico
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 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Cries & Whispers (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, maid, art, family relations, nordic, women, dialogue, obsession, existentialism, sisters, visceral ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1900s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, talky, harsh, melancholic ...
Plot: existentialism, biopic, tragedy, crime gone awry, mentor, human nature, youth, misfit, isolation, village, philosophy, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1800s, year 1974 ...
Place: germany, europe, bavaria
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 8.0
 52K
Mirror (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, art house, serious ...
Plot: world war two, childhood, surrealism, poetry, memory, dream, winter, stream of consciousness, mirror, minimal dialogue, woods, levitation ...
Time: year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, europe ...
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Fox and His Friends (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class ...
Style: disturbing, melancholic, serious, realistic, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, working class, friends, subculture, gays and lesbians, friendship, unlikely friendships, gay interest, infidelity, social differences, rich and poor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: germany, munich germany, morocco, africa
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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 7.7
 15K
Stroszek (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they ...
Style: road movie, surreal, dark, depressing, dark comedy ...
Plot: immigrant, surrealism, insanity, on the road, loser, bittersweet, culture clash, american dream, misfit, self discovery, pimp, art ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: germany, wisconsin, new york, west germany, europe ...
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 7.5
 3K
Providence (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, terminal illness, unfulfillment, human nature, crumbling marriage, writer's life, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place: france
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In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style: disturbing, art house, philosophical, depressing, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, gender, transgender, suicide, loser, gay, sex, identity, psychopath, social outcast, prostitution ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: frankfurt germany
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 8.1
 144K
Stalker (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: stalker, distopia, human nature, post apocalypse, trippy, dystopian future, surrealism, wish come true, dog, society, post apocalyptic, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 1979, distant future, near future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 9K
Pixote (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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 6.7
 7K
Querelle (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style: sexual, controversial, erotic, art house, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, murder, surrealism, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, psychology, sexuality, glbt, serial killer ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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 7.6
 7K
Love Streams (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Style: existential, cult classic, art film, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot: writers, alcoholic, drug addiction, addiction, couple relations, therapist, siblings, crazy love, destiny, art, literary, time travel ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: los angeles, las vegas
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 8.1
 117K
Paris, Texas (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style: road movie, surreal, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: desert, father son relationship, on the road, road trip, amnesia, relationships, storytelling, parenthood, loneliness, drifter, sibling relationship, reconciliation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: texas, los angeles, america, nebraska, midwest ...
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 7.7
 13K
Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style: road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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 7.5
 48K
Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, addiction, poverty, alcohol abuse, great dialogue, drug, great ending, eccentricity, melancholy, dialogue, cat, gay ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, art house, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, lust, sexuality, sex addict, explicit sex, erection, sex scene, nymphomaniac, erotica, nudity, masturbation, deviant sex ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
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 7.0
 34K
Border (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Style: art house, bleak, surreal, rough, neurotic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: customs officer, father daughter relationship, troll, border guard, sadistic psychopath, sexuality, norse mythology, baby, sex scene, forest, supernatural horror, child molestation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: central europe, scandinavia, finland, eastern europe
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You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Style: psychological, suspense, neo noir, exciting, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, child prostitution, hotel, childhood trauma, teenage girl, suicidal thoughts, suicide, violence, corruption, loner, u.s. senator, pedophilia ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york, iraq, afghanistan
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 6.4
 2K
Dovlatov (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist ...
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, visually appealing, art house, beautiful
Plot: writers, writer's life, freedom, politics, friends, life is a bitch, society, drinking alcohol, book, introspection, social realism, drinking ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: ussr, soviet union
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 5.7
 29K
Jawbreaker (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 3 of Reagan High School's most popular girls pretend to kidnap their friend by shoving a jawbreaker into the victim's mouth to keep her from screaming. Their plan goes awry when the girl swallows the jawbreaker, choking to death. Now the ...
Style: dark comedy, teen, black comedy, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, prom, popularity, bullying, dark humor, teenager, fashion, prank, murder, prank gone wrong, popular girl, friendship ...
Time: 90s, future, y2k, 20th century, 2000s
Place: usa
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, teen, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, good versus evil, super powers, revenge, teenage girl, superhuman powers, heroes, teenager, vigilante, spider, transformation ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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