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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an ...
Style:
art house, cult classic, experimental, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
feminist, minimalism, voice over narration, male female relationship, movie actress, dance, unrequited love, piano, memory, identity, femme fatale, female nudity ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
india, france, kolkata, indochina
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style:
erotic, sexy, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, multiple storylines, character study, friendship, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, art, loneliness, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, east asia, taipei, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style:
experimental, art house, artsy, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
nihilism, existentialism, depression, loneliness, minimalism, introspection, existential loneliness, boredom, loser, time travel, lsd, trauma ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sincere, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
longing, tourist, introspection, human nature, dull life, solitude, theater, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taipei, taiwan, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style:
serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
working class, vengeance, visceral, loneliness, murder, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 1990, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, mind bending, cerebral, psychedelic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
space travel, artificial intelligence, astronaut, outer space, space, moon, computer, scientist, human versus computer, extraterrestrial, deception, spacewalk ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, stone age ...
Place:
persia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Style:
art house, social, thought provoking, independent film, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
childhood, school, homework, village, child, teacher, empathy, coming of age, children, boy, renaissance, notebook ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, depression, fog, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, existentialism, mother son relationship, society, factory, passion, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.
Style:
melancholic, road movie, emotional, sexy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, loneliness, single parent, existentialism, illegitimate son, teenage girl, nudity, flowers, quest, divorce, female exhibitionist, casual sex ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, france, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, police investigation, forensic, brutality, forensics, character study, road trip, isolation, everyday life, law enforcement, introspection, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, maghreb, turkey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A week in the life of a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and his supportive wife Laura.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, existential, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
poetry, bus driver, everyday life, poet, poem, husband wife relationship, notebook, social realism, writers, bus, beer, bulldog ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Style:
meditative, atmospheric, stylized, anime, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
nature, loneliness, island, raft, sea turtle, isolation, desert island, sea, swimming, magic realism, turtle, solitude ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
erotic, cerebral, black and white, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, midlife crisis, marriage, love, relationships, affair, amor, illicit affair, passion, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, usa, los angeles, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Style:
art house, depressing, existential, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
artist, minimalism, female nudity, suicide attempt, loneliness, nude girl, erotica, mental disorder, post war, betrayal, suicide, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style:
spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, female nudity, minimalism, jealousy, spirituality, spirit, nude girl, social outcast, existentialism, alienation, post war, hamlet ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, anthology, art house, light ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, nihilism, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, shoplifting, teenage boy, logic, post war, betrayal, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Style:
sexy, contemplative, erotic drama, sensual, touching ...
Plot:
sensuality, forbidden love, picnic, real sex, countryside, on the road, immigrant, infidelity, illegal immigrant, mature woman, summer, nudity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand, burma
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Parallel stories of Eros set in 200 B.C. Nomadic shepherds, plagued by drought, happen on a fishing encampment with plentiful fresh water. The local men are away but will return when it rains; the shepherds stay to refresh their flock until the rain ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, avant garde, allegory, tragic ending ...
Plot:
young love, shepherd, children, coming of age, female nudity, minimalism, surrealism, desire, unrequited love, longing, passion, sexual attraction ...
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, hellas, athens greece, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
boy, tenant, friendship, solitude, friends, nanny, lifestyle, life is a bitch, hopes, estrangement, urban setting, drunkenness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, korea, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's ...
Style:
anthology, sexy, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
longing, love affair, tragic love, social differences, couples, fall in love, wartime life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, minimalism, time, slut ...
Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1966 ...
Place:
taiwan, taipei, shanghai, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
couples, fall in love, love and romance, dangerous attraction, chaos and mayhem, couple relations, danger, living together, friendship, minimalism, mental disorder, women ...
Time:
90s, year 2002
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and ...
Style:
arthurian, spiritual, anthology, fairy tale, surreal ...
Plot:
arthurian legend, medieval, true love, knight, transgression, secret lover, holy grail, betrayal, lake, chivalry, castle, female nudity ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, year 1974, 6th century, 5th century
Place:
france, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
Style:
aesthetic, slow cinema, black and white, art house, independent film
Plot:
art, minimalism, muslim, alienation, small town, spring, children, town, turk, rural setting, student, school ...
Place:
turkey, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, clever, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, nightmare, guilt, childhood, haunted by the past, hidden camera, dysfunctional family, videotaping, found footage, psychology, voyeurism, lie ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, germany, iraq ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.
Style:
melancholic, art house, slow cinema
Plot:
refugee, self discovery, migration, forest, longing, trauma, intimate, identity, war refugee, isolation, solitude, minimalism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Although a lowlander, Marco is a robust fellow. He is now working as a farmhand for mountain farmer Alois in a remote Swiss alpine village and, even at the regulars’ table at the local inn, people are slowly learning to appreciate this iced tea ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
illness, brain tumor, love, mountain village, tenderness, relationships, love story, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, couples ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, character study, lifestyle change, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, intimate, city life, minimalism, slice of life, sibling relationship ...
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Box Metaphor is a compelling dystopian journey where unjust imprisonment unveils societal conformity and defiance’s profound impact. It’s about breaking free from metaphorical boxes and the resilience of the human spirit.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, resilience, metaphor, prison, distopia, social problems, dystopian society, locked in a cage, surrealism, locked in, social issues, oppression ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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