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List of silence movies

Pinochet in Suburbia (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, society, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, state affairs, legal, downfall, against humanity, trial, politician, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: latin america, chile, london, england, south america ...
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 7.0
 59K
Colonia (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style: suspense, harsh, psychological, emotional, political ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: religious fanatic, religion, genocide, dictatorship, torture chamber, sect, abuse, kidnapping, escape, torture, prison, man punching a woman ...
Time: 70s, year 2015, year 1973
Place: chile, peru, germany, south america, italy ...
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I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, holocaust, storytelling, school, love, young lovers, forbidden love, identity, friendship, camp, world war two, angel of death ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, usa, poland, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style: extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot: world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
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 6.4
 10K
Flight 93 (2006)
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, passenger, 9/11, hijacking, terrorist, aviation, war on terror, danger, daring rescue, government agency, save the day ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: north america, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.2
 16K
Amen. (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style: sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
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Maruta 3 ... Destroy all Evidence (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
Style: perverse, terrifying, bloody, realistic, serious ...
Plot: against humanity, gory, extreme, torture, extreme violence, pandemic, soldier, danger, world war two, dehumanization, laboratory, strong violent content ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: asia, china, japan, korea, russia ...
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 7.5
 739
Captive (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: family relations, society, uncover truth, haunted by the past, against humanity, life is a bitch, adoption, missing person, political unrest, teenage life, hidden truth, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s, 70s
Place: latin america, spain, france, italy, europe ...
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 4.9
 1K
1978 (2024)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 80 min.
Story: During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers kidnap a group of young people. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell: the wrong group has been kidnapped.
Style: intellectual, social
Plot: supernatural horror, torture, sadism, democracy, communist, anti communism, activist, radical, intervention, ambassador, nationalism, reform ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: south america, uruguay, brazil, italy, latin america ...
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 7.6
 115K
United 93 (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Style: controversial, political, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, terrorist, war on terror, survival, al qaeda, aviation, medieval, death, airplane accident ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, boston, usa, pennsylvania ...
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Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970s is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna) was a goalie for a ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot: dictatorship, politics, false accusation, murder, prison, terrorism, on the run, danger, prison escape, football, operation condor, prison life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: latin america, south america, argentina, bolivia, europe ...
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, violence, rape, revenge, rapist, sexual abuse, serial killer, danger, female vigilante, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
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 7.4
 45K
The Haunting (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, creepy ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, disappearance, supernatural horror, insanity, haunted, research, hearing voices, lesbian, poltergeist, obsession, mansion ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, 1870s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: boston, new england, usa, massachusetts
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The Silent Twins (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires.
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot: twins, black woman, sisters, twin sister, identical twins, silent man, social problems, social misfits, social issues, relationship problems, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Place: wales
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Outside Satan (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet, with its dunes and marshes, lives a mysterious wanderer from nowhere who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires...
Style: captivating, touching, contemplative, dark, aesthetic ...
Plot: minimal dialogue, mother daughter relationship, violent man, loner, village life, miraculous event, brutality, male female friendship, countryside, dead daughter, hysteria, water ...
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 7.2
 95K
Papillon (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Henri "Papillon" Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. After planning and executing a series of treacherous ...
Style: suspense, factual, homoerotic, psychological, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison escape, prison, island prison, friendship, wrongful conviction, life sentence, escape, jail, escape plan, male friendship, solitary, survival ...
Time: year 2017, year 1931, 1930s, year 1969, 20th century ...
Place: south america, colombia, france, former yugoslavia, venezuela ...
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 3.1
 49
Prank Week (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A campus urban legend myth comes true when fraternity brothers start to get killed off one by one by the infamous serial killer who used to live in the fraternity house 25 years ago.
Style: underground film, sexy, bloody, parody, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: fraternity, serial killer, serial murder, college student, college, violence, drug, fear, frat party, maniac, marijuana, hate ...
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
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Slasher Night (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Manny Velazquez underground slasher tribute about a number of serial killers on the loose in Chicago and begins a murder spree. Meanwhile,, a young man watches over his friends house over the weekend until he realizes that something is wrong.
Style: slasher, dark, bloody, psychotronic, cult classic ...
Plot: home invasion, chase, maniac, evil, murder, evil clown, chaos, killing spree, serial killer, teenage girl, friendship, teenage boy ...
Place: chicago, illinois
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Sleeping in Honey (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A ...
Style: detective, psychological, tense, political drama
Plot: arab, investigation, sexual dysfunction, taboo, social commentary, cover up, journalism, realism, political satire, investigative journalism, corruption, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: egypt, cairo egypt
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The Rakugo Movie (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three short films.
Style: humorous, rough, tense, suspense, anthology ...
Plot: abusive father, dysfunctional family, family relations, student, child in peril, hardship, underage drinking, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, death, gangster, murder ...
Place: japan, usa
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 5.6
 1K
Silent Youth (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Silent Youth is a film for misfits, dreamers and lovers. It's the classic story of a coming out, but it focuses on the moments one tends to quickly forget: the first approach, the creaking of the chair while sitting across from each other, not ...
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay interest, gay lead character, lgbt, lgbtq, teenage boy, introspection, boys love, fall in love, roommate, homosexual, gay, bare chested male ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
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Itawari (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Jack Porter was a lonely man whose sole devotion was guarding an abandoned hospital, until he met Hannah, a homeless woman using the hospital for refuge. Over a year she changed Jack's life completely, before fate separated them. Jack forces ...
Style: art film, independent film, crying
Plot: dancing, security, fire, food, death, friendship, rain, tea, guilt, love, flashback, solitude ...
Place: england
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Beyond the Grave (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer in a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.
Style: art house, suspense, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, manhunt, survival, tough guy, psychopath, violence, revenge, pursuit, police, murder, apocalypse, investigation ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: brazil
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
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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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly ...
Style: road movie, black and white, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: on the road, hitchhiker, nordic, summer, social satire, misfit, relationships, road trip, buddies, misfit partners, social misfits, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: europe, finland
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Silent Wedding (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
Style: humorous, semi serious, surreal, realistic, biting ...
Plot: dictatorship, dark humor, wedding preparations and rituals, dictator, injustice, occupation, family life, parents and children, oppression, disorder, plan gone awry, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: romania, soviet union, europe, ussr
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Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style: grindhouse, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, sexual ...
Plot: female nudity, tarantula, serial killer, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, woman in jeopardy, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, whodunit, psychopath, obsession, maniac ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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The Fifth Cord (1971)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, suspense, erotic, scary ...
Plot: nymphomania, reporter, investigation, new year, murder, bare chested male, sex scene, marriage proposal, lgbt, organized crime, macabre, killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, new york, australia
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Silence Like Glass (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: friendship, couples, friends, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, dancer's life, society, hopes, unfulfillment, love and romance, terminal illness, clinic ...
Time: 80s
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 7.6
 15K
After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, videotaping, life & death, heaven, destiny, hospital, childhood, filmmaking, memories ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo, japan
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