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 6.4
 20K
Maniac (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, maniac, violent, torture, murder, extreme violence, exploitation, macabre, extreme, violence, blood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of ...
Style: sexy, erotic, controversial, sexual, manga ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, impotent husband, sex, world war one, erotica, nudity, love triangle, master and servant, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, war injury, love ...
Time: year 1981, 1910s
Place: england, britain, france, europe
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 7.1
 445K
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive ...
Style: parody, funny, hilarious, spoof, controversial ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: jungle, wilhelm scream, vietnam war, showbiz, satire, storytelling, stupidity, military, disguise, actor, profanity, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: vietnam, southeast asia, hawaii, asia
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 6.4
 4K
Hail Mary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, ...
Style: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: female pubic hair, female nudity, basketball, breaking the fourth wall, female athlete, gas station, controversy, virgin, jesus, bible, exploitation, sex ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex addict, bdsm, lust, nymphomaniac, sexual perversion, explicit sex, nudity, nymphomania, sexuality, sex scene, erection ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
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 5.9
 190K
Hostel (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, torture, psychopath, survival, danger, sadistic horror, captivity, dismemberment, violence, torment, strong violent content, sadistic psychopath ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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 7.1
 97K
Elephant (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, realistic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, mass murder, teacher, school, violence, murder, high school, youth, teenager, serial killer, boy ...
Time: year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon
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 5.1
 11K
Cannibal Ferox (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
Style: bloody, slasher, grindhouse, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, brutality, eating human flesh, zombie, gory, native, violent, rape, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: south america, new york, colombia, usa
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 7.5
 5K
Bandit Queen (1994)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, political, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rape and revenge, female warrior, rape, poverty, violent, indians, vengeance, feminist, assassination, sexual abuse, gang, kidnapping ...
Time: year 1994, 70s, 60s, 80s, year 1983 ...
Place: india, asia
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Interspecies Reviewers (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In a world bursting at the seams with moe monsters and humanoids of the horned sort, which brave heroes will take it upon themselves to review the beastly babes of the red-light district? Can only one be crowned the ultimate title of best girl? ...
Style: anime, ecchi, sex comedy, adult animation, erotic ...
Plot: harem, hermaphrodite, prostitution, dispute, brothel, angel, erotica, elf, sex worker, cyclops, fantasy world, explorer ...
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I Want Your Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten ...
Style: mumblecore, controversial, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gender, gay, gay sex, homosexual, male nudity, sex scene, gay love, gay erotica, ejaculation, lgbt, introspection, gay friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, ohio
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 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 2.8
 2K
Snuff (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychopath, biker, murder, lust, sexual promiscuity, filmmaking, sadism, graphic violence, rape, voyeur, promiscuity, cult leader ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina, latin america
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, ghetto, vengeance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, latin america, usa, california, south central los angeles ...
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 7.9
 90K
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style: controversial, cult classic, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, gunfight, robbery, gang, on the run, violent, heist, friendship, cowboy, wild west, bounty hunter, civil war ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: texas, america, persia, mexico, arizona ...
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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 7.4
 63K
Bad Education (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, sexy, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexual abuse, transsexual, gay, child abuse, transvestism, boarding school, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, gender, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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 6.7
 83K
Killer Joe (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).
Style: neo noir, disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, hitman, violent, sex, greed, deal, cheating wife, nudity, character study, police detective, family relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, oklahoma, dallas texas
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 4.7
 24K
9 Songs (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at ...
Style: erotic, sexual, controversial, sexy, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, sexuality, lust, oral sex, passion, masturbation, desire, sexual relations, sexual fantasy, erection ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, antarctica, britain, europe, england
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
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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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Year of the Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style: neo noir, controversial, intense, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: chinese mafia, triad, organized crime, culture clash, racism, gangster, sexually frustrated woman, murder, violence, police detective, police corruption, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, china, vietnam, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: mate swapping, sex, college, sexual awakening, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love triangle, battle of the sexes, sexual content, friends, depression ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, vietnam, asia, usa
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 8.7
 404K
South Park (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Style: adult cartoon, adult animation, parody, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: gross out humor, social satire, satire, racial slur, elementary school, gay slur, mischievous children, young kid, young heroes, vicious, adult humor, friends ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, nova scotia, usa
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 7.8
 18K
The Devils (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style: disturbing, controversial, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: religion, surrealism, inquisition, priest, nun, nunsploitation, witch, politics, torture, clergy, witchcraft, convent ...
Time: 17th century, year 1971, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages
Place: france, europe, london, england
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 4.7
 7K
Grotesque (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, controversial, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: torture, sexual abuse, psychopath, sadism, kidnapping, gory, captivity, brutality, violent death, pain, perversion, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 8.1
 50K
The Message (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, UK, Egypt
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.
Style: epic, controversial, islamic, spiritual, dramatic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: muslim, islam, religion, ancient history, arabic history, arab, medieval, desert, prophet, religions or cults, ancient, caravan ...
Time: 7th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1976
Place: middle east, arabia, rome italy, egypt, europe ...
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, sadistic, slasher, rough, scary ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, psychopath, macabre, investigation, torture, murder, psycho killer, maniac, sadism, suffering, violence ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
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 6.3
 35K
Tideland (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, child neglect, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
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 6.3
 5K
Poison (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, anthology, avant garde, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual, gay erotica, surrealism, prison, life is a bitch, social misfits, riddles and clues, body horror, homoeroticism, experiment ...
Time: 90s
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