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Fight Club(1999)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 13,769 votes)

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

A Clockwork Orange(1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 17min | Science Fiction, Crime
4.1/5 (with 6,035 votes)

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

mother!(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 3,161 votes)

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

The Big Lebowski(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Crime
3.9/5 (with 5,103 votes)

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

Synecdoche, New York(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 598 votes)

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Melancholia(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 15min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 1,516 votes)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

I Stand Alone(1998)

1h 29min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Directed by Gaspar Noé - With Philippe Nahon, Guillaume Nicloux, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Jean-François Rauger, Olivier Doran, ...

It Comes at Night(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 1,047 votes)

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

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.

Lords of Chaos(2018)

1h 58min | Drama, Music, Horror, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 176 votes)

A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

Begotten(1991)

1h 12min | Fantasy, Horror
3.0/5 (with 139 votes)

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Directed by E. Elias Merhige

On the Silver Globe(1988)

3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

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Bullet Ballet(1999)

1h 27min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Rebels of the Neon God(1992)

1h 46min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.

The Stranger(1967)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

Shopping(1994)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Action
2.7/5 (with 21 votes)

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, it's a business, but for Billy and Jo, it's a labour of love. As the competition between Tommy and Billy grows more fierce, the stakes become higher and the "shopping" trips increasingly risky.

Typhoon Club(1985)

1h 55min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Directed by Shinji Sōmai - With Yuka Onishi, Tomokazu Miura, Youki Kudoh, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Shingo Tsurumi, Tomiko Ishii, ...

The Man Who Sleeps(1974)

1h 17min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

Long Live Death(1971)

1h 30min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

Directed by Fernando Arrabal - With Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Fernando Arrabal, Victor Garcia

Eden and After(1970)

1h 33min | Mystery, Drama
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

From Where There Is Nothing(2021)

Four individuals are loosely connected by fate in an environment of dishonesty and hate.

Combat Shock(1986)

1h 32min | Horror, War, Drama
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo

Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story(2018)

1h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Sid is a guy who suffers from insomnia. Through the many lonely nights, he meets Aya. Who is she, really? And how will she change Sid’s life?

Directed by Irene Emma Villamor

Room(2005)

1h 23min | Drama, Documentary
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.

Directed by Kyle Henry - With Cyndi Williams

Krapp's Last Tape(2007)

45min

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory.

My Official Wife(1914)

50min | Drama

This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a sensational success and launched her as the most popular star that year. Its Russian setting was drawn upon by Young for many more of her features. Two short clips of the film exists in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album," and have been mounted on Internet Archive and Google Video. One scene shows the meeting of Helene's terrorist cell with an extra alleged to be Leon Trostky. The other clip appears to be when she and Lennox are visiting the Weletsky's. (cont. http://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/mow.htm)

In Limbo(2016)

15min | Drama

Life in spite of everything.

Good Grief! Cancer Boy!(1990)

3min | Comedy, Drama

In this experimental parody of Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strips and TV specials, a live action Charlie Brown lookalike named "Cancer Boy" attempts to kick a football, only to be mocked by his peers and fall into despair.

What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band(2000)

1h 42min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A documentary about the Canadian noise band.