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The Exorcism of Emily Rose(2005)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,212 votes)

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

Directed by Scott Derrickson - With Laura Linney, Jennifer Carpenter, Tom Wilkinson, Colm Feore, Mary Beth Hurt, Henry Czerny, ...
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Thelma(2017)

NR
| 1h 57min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 435 votes)

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

Directed by Joachim Trier - With Eili Harboe, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Okay Kaya
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Mean Streets(1973)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 922 votes)

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Robert De Niro, Richard Romanus, Harvey Keitel, Cesare Danova, David Proval, Amy Robinson, ...
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The Furies(2019)

1h 22min | Horror, Action, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 69 votes)

A young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game — a game that can only have one winner.

Directed by Tony D'Aquino

Garden State(2004)

R
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 817 votes)

Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.

Directed by Zach Braff - With Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaardd, Ian Holm, Zach Braff, Jean Smart, Armando Riesco, ...
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The Andromeda Strain(1971)

G
| 2h 11min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 280 votes)

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, ...
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Control(2007)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 359 votes)

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

Directed by Anton Corbijn - With Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Andrew Sheridan, ...
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Requiem(2006)

1h 32min | Drama, Horror
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid - With Sandra Hüller, Walter Schmidinger, Burghart Klaußner, Jens Harzer, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier, ...

The Life of Jesus(1997)

1h 36min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.

Directed by Bruno Dumont - With David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Geneviève Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf

Simple Men(1992)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.

Directed by Hal Hartley - With Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Holly Marie Combs, ...

The Pleasure(1985)

1h 25min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Edgard has just lost his wife Eleonore he had met at the carnival in Venice. It evokes his memory by listening to tapes . His brother's wife Ursula and his son Edmond come to move in with him. If the teen tries to seduce his aunt, Ursula wants to replace Eleonore in the heart of Edgard . He refuses until the day Ursula sold at auction to local brothel ...

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With Laura Gemser, Lilli Carati, Dagmar Lassander

Augustine(2012)

NR
| 1h 42min | Drama, History
2.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.

Directed by Alice Winocour - With Vincent Lindon, Soko, Aurore Broutin, Chiara Mastroianni, Déborah Révy, Frans Boyer, ...
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'night, Mother(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Directed by Tom Moore - With Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Michael Kenworthy
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The Magic Pill(2017)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Doctors, scientists and chefs around the globe combat illness with dietary changes, believing fat should be embraced as a source of fuel.

Directed by Robert Tate
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Fists in the Pocket(1965)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 80 votes)

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

Directed by Marco Bellocchio - With Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masè, Liliana Gerace

Wildflower(1991)

1h 31min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends and hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from the torture she undergoes daily. However, Alice's stepfather soon finds out about the friendship Alice has struck up and punishes her brutally. This story of friendship and youth shows that everyone is human and deserves to be treated so, no matter their disability or weakness.

Directed by Diane Keaton - With Beau Bridges
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The Aura(2005)

2h 14min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 84 votes)

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps….

Directed by Fabián Bielinsky - With Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Pablo Cedrón, Jorge D'Elía, Alejandro Awada, ...
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The Funeral Guest(2015)

PG
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A lonely girl seeks love, connection and family by crashing funerals.

Warbus(1986)

R
| 1h 32min | Action
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.

Directed by Ferdinando Baldi - With Romano Kristoff, Benito Stefanelli, Urs Althaus

I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse(1973)

1h 40min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!

Directed by Fernando Arrabal - With Emmanuelle Riva, Hachemi Marzouk, François Châtelet, Marco Perrin, Marie France

The Mountain Road(1960)

NR
| 1h 42min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

Directed by Daniel Mann - With James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan, Frank Silvera, James Best, ...

Dr. Kildare's Crisis(1940)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

Directed by Harold S. Bucquet - With Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
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The Lost Prince(2004)

3h 8min | Drama

An acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like developmental disorder, and the Royal Family tried to shelter him from public view as much as possible.

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - With Matthew James Thomas, Gina McKee, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy, Rollo Weeks, Bibi Andersson, ...

FAT: A Documentary(2019)

1h 35min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all our good intentions, we go on getting fatter and fatter.

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Under the Lights(2022)

11min | Drama

Desperate to feel normal, a boy with epilepsy goes to prom knowing the lights will make him have a seizure.

Wahadełko(1981)

55min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Filip Bajon - With Janusz Gajos

Sólo es una más(2017)

1h 45min
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Mateo (20) suffers epileptic seizures almost daily. His life is a blend of habitual routines and the dreamlike world he senses during his seizures. His life is transformed when he meets Natalia, a young, enchanting and crazy lady.