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Cannibal Holocaust(1980)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 686 votes)

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

The Girl Next Door(2007)

1h 31min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 297 votes)

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.

Antichrist(2009)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,192 votes)

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Natural Born Killers(1994)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 58min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,476 votes)

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Dream(2023)

2h 5min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the 'Homeless World Cup'. A documentary producer So-min films their story while Hong-dae struggles to coach the homeless because of his misconceptions about them.

Directed by Lee Byeong-heon - With Park Seo-joon, IU, Kim Jong-soo, Ko Chang-seok, Jung Seung-kil, Lee Hyun-woo, ...

Clownhouse(1989)

1h 21min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

Three young brothers are terrorized by an evil clown.

Directed by Victor Salva - With Sam Rockwell

Experimenter(2015)

1h 37min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 201 votes)

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

Dear White People(2014)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 207 votes)

Four college students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African-American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post racial' America while weaving a story about forging one's unique path in the world.

The Doom Generation(1995)

3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Angel of Evil(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 127 votes)

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

My Führer(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 29min | War, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 43 votes)

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...

The Acid House(1998)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

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Scum(1979)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 79 votes)

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].

Max(2002)

1h 46min | War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics.

Victim(1961)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 52 votes)

Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.

Urotsukidōji IV: Inferno Road(1995)

2h 15min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

It is the age of the Overfiend, and flesh-hungry monsters rule the Earth. Immortal half-demon Amano Jyaku travels the wasteland, witness to the rape and torture of the human race. The last hope for humanity is the demonic Lord of Chaos, the Overfiend's natural enemy. Will the world survive their final battle?

Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show(2017)

1h 35min | Documentary, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 28 votes)

It had all the makings of a huge television success: a white-hot comic at the helm, a coveted primetime slot, and a pantheon of future comedy legends in the cast and crew. So why did The Dana Carvey Show—with a writers room and cast including then unknowns Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, and more— crash and burn so spectacularly? TOO FUNNY TO FAIL tells the hilarious true story of a crew of genius misfits who set out to make comedy history… and succeeded in a way they never intended.

Directed by Josh Greenbaum

Intimate Affairs(2002)

1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 13 votes)

When a scholar is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.

Adoration(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Amelia 2.0(2017)

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.

Directed by Adam Orton

Hearts and Minds(1974)

1h 52min | Documentary, War
4.0/5 (with 36 votes)

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

Directed by Peter Davis

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much(2017)

1h 12min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Maths teacher Ted Slauson became adept at recording and memorizing prices of products featured on the iconic game show The Price is Right, an obsession dating back to the show's inception in 1972. This passion and dedication for the show culminated in him helping a contestant place a perfect bid during a 2008 showcase, an innocent act that would create one of the biggest controversies in television industry history.

Directed by CJ Wallis

Hamsun(1996)

2h 39min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.

The Rachel Divide(2018)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. This portrait cuts through the very public controversy to reveal Dolezal’s motivations.

Exposé(1976)

1h 24min | Thriller, Horror
2.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

Wendy Williams: The Movie(2021)

1h 28min | Drama, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Talk show host Wendy Williams executive produces the biopic on her life, revealing the highs and lows she has experienced throughout the years. Wendy has made herself the go-to source for great celebrity dish on her hit talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, but recently the spotlight has turned towards her. The authorized project provides a revealing look at Wendy’s journey, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show. Despite all the naysayers and obstacles Wendy encountered throughout her life, her strength and determination have allowed her to thrive.

Directed by Darren Grant

Me @ the Zoo(2012)

1h 30min | Documentary
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

An intimate look at a controversial young video blogger, regarded by millions as the Internet's first rebel folk hero.

Directed by Chris Moukarbel - With Cara Cunningham

Brimstone and Treacle(1982)

1h 13min | TV Movie, Drama, Horror
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Produced in 1976 for BBC's Play For Today. Banned for 11 years, and finally broadcast on August 25th, 1987. It was remade, with Denholm Elliot returning to the cast, in 1982.

Ka Bodyscapes(2016)

1h 39min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Three young people—Haris, a gay painter; Vishnu, a rural kabaddi player and their friend Sia, an activist who refuses to conform to dominant norms of femininity—struggle to find space and happiness in a conservative Indian city.

Friend of the World(2020)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

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