Movies with haunting vibe

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Bleak Deliberate Dreamlike Minimalist Lingering

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Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

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Karma and illness, Mortality and caregiving, Nonhuman transformation, Reincarnation and longing, Spirits and human bonds, Ritual memory

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Stylish Dreamlike Intense Measured Oppressive

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This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

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Intergenerational trauma, Afterlife navigation, Memory fragmentation, Family loyalty under peril, Drug trade risk, Sex industry exploitation

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Dry

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Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

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Power dynamics, Investigative persistence, Institutional corruption, Sex trafficking exposure, Surveillance and privacy, Domestic abuse aftermath

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Bleak

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Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

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Parent child relationship strain, Absent father influence, Overbearing mother dynamics, Coming of age tension, Gay theme conflict, Lgbt teen pressure

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Stylish

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A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

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Moral ambiguity under pressure, Religious guilt versus craving, Public faith versus private desire, Private betrayal and danger, Deception under scrutiny, Bodily transformation and ethics

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Intimate Stylish Dreamlike Measured Vast

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Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

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Love across time, Time reversal, Aging and memory, Caregiving and loyalty, Legacy and inheritance, Memory and mortality

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Relentless

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A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Cycle of abuse, Survivor guilt dynamics, Revenge and coercion, Dehumanization through torture, Secret society ritualism, Transcendence through pain

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Realistic Intimate Raw Claustrophobic Deliberate

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Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

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Secrecy and exposure, Institutional conformity pressure, Romance within authority, Religious code vs desire, Teacher student power dynamics, Lgbt relationship stigma

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Realistic Raw Bleak Restrained Measured

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Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

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Trust under pressure, Loss and resilience, Grief and faith, Family displacement, Belonging and alienation, Religion as refuge

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Immersive Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Deliberate

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When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.

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Jealousy between twins, Haunting and memory, Identity and impersonation, Guilt and self-blame, Deception within relationships, Family separation trauma

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