Art house movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style:
philosophical, art house, cerebral, independent film, meditative ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, winter, hotel, divorce, storytelling, art, haunted by the past, social differences, couple relations, estrangement, guest, workplace ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
middle east, cappadocia turkey, maghreb, turkey
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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, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, goth, love, immortality, blood, supernatural, vampirism, eternal life, death, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place:
tangier morocco, detroit
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, USA, Sweden, Belgium, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Jenna to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, stylized, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
violence, vengeance, punishment, drug dealer, surrealism, revenge, violent, drugged, muay thai, torture, prostitute, murder ...
Time:
year 2013, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, bangkok thailand, thailand
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90K
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, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot:
writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, introspection ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2040s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, sadomasochism, monk, chaos, religion, courtroom, society, mistaken identity, greed, visceral, estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
Style:
ambiguous ending, art house, road movie, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
sailing, hitchhiker, swimming, drowning, rivalry, sailboat, lake, jealousy, adultery, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, taunting ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, poland, europe
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112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, surreal, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
farce, bourgeoisie, high society, social commentary, absurdism, satire, social satire, surrealism, dark humor, decadence, dinner, dream ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
europe, paris france, france, spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style:
sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, swimming pool, swimming, murder, writers, voyeurism, sex, frenchwoman, lust, murder mystery, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, clown, psychology, killer clown, extreme, blood, art, magic realism, funeral ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, touching, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, wedding, first love, coma, love, children, elevator, regret, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, couples, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo, taipei ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
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61K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, cerebral, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
mental illness, surrealism, rape, insanity, schizophrenia, murder, isolation, delusion, hallucination, fear, nightmare, claustrophobia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
dystopia, trippy, surrealism, distopia, slave, meditation, alien species, baby, alien life-form, giant, planet, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, distant future, future
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style:
art house, erotic, philosophical, biting, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, writers, film producer, estranged couple, car accident, film industry, passive aggression, swimming pool, relationships ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, france, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
cerebral, sexy, philosophical, visual, art house ...
Plot:
grief, classical music, musician, solitude, loss of child, sex, mourning, trauma, loneliness, depression, stripper, car accident ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The lives of a filmmaker, pianist, painter, and architect collide and intertwine in a multilayered tale of love, art, violence, and power dynamics that ultimately questions, what is real?
Style:
sexy, art house, erotic, mind bending
Plot:
erotica, bdsm, experimental narrative, sexuality, puzzle, surrealism, sex scene, amusement park, bondage, pole dancing, conundrum, woman undressing for a man ...
Place:
portland oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Over eight standalone episodes, the series explores love in its multitude of forms – including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self love.
Style:
anthology, touching, light, sincere, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, dating, dating show, women, male male relationship, male female relationship, unfulfillment, gay couple, passionate love, passion, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york
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11K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style:
art house, anthology, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, love triangle, male male relationship, summer, adultery, love, crazy love, bittersweet, inadvertently, family relations, making love ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Style:
surreal, cult classic, visually stunning, gothic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
steampunk, dystopia, children, childhood, friendship, good versus evil, surrealism, cloning, flea, trippy, escape, mad scientist ...
Time:
future
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aspiring trapeze artist discovers a cryptic letter, written once by her recently deceased father, that leads her to a gold mine in a remote California desert.
Style:
art house, disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lifestyle change, changing lives, father daughter relationship, acrobat, vaudeville, elderly man, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, letter, elderly couple ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
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141K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage, mental illness, dysfunctional family, working class, construction worker, housewife, mental health, visceral, illness, illicit affair, psychiatry, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
controversial, sexy, erotic, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
politics, sex, revolution, anti war, vietnam war, sexploitation, sexuality, photograph, sex scene, self discovery, nudity, controversy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain, europe, russia, vietnam, israel ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style:
cult classic, art house, philosophical, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loneliness, loner, african american, mafia, hitman, samurai, hip hop, honor, friendship, martial arts, assassin, professional killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan ...
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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, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, secret society, christmas, orgy, voyeurism, obsession, sex, disguise, dream, adultery, doctor, nudity ...
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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