Best movies like The People Next Door
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Plot Summary:
Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to understand their now-alien daughter. Based on J.P. Miller's television play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, cult film
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Dalmas (1973)
Plot Summary:
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn when he encounters drug lord Plastic Man and a tribe of LSD enthusiasts. What follows is both literal and metaphorical mayhem as the boundaries of the film start collapsing and our idea of what's real is pushed to its very limits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film
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Berkeley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: underground film, cult film
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White Hot (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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R.P.M. (1970)
Plot Summary:
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political
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Lilian's Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Wild Honey (1972)
Plot Summary:
Country girl comes to the big city, gets into all kinds of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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South West 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of women on the eve of its release.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Loser (1996)
Plot Summary:
23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Smoke and Flesh (1968)
Plot Summary:
Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Tale of the Dean's Wife (1970)
Plot Summary:
The campus votes her most likely ... to ... and she does! AGAIN ... and AGAIN ... and AGAIN ... and AGAIN!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Blue Dream (2013)
Plot Summary:
A news writer finds himself caught up in a world of sex, drugs and corporate takeovers as he tries to solve a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, semi serious
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The Unpolished (2007)
Plot Summary:
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Fallen Angel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Caught in a seedy underworld of lies, lust and murder, Antonelli, the local mob boss, and his sultry young wife, Michelle, share a game of deception and jealousy that soon turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Daddy, Darling (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that her teenage boyfriend is dear old dad and finally get to her stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, mind bending, thought provoking, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, independent film
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Bare Naked Desires (2006)
Plot Summary:
Misty, a call girl working at a cathouse run by Tamiko. Tamiko runs her house like a mini-dictatorship, making all the girls follow a strict set of rules: No boyfriends, no orgasms, no taking tips, etc. Misty is the top girl in the house and is making the most money. Tamiko does her best to keep Misty in line, however. Tamiko asks, sensing Misty may be thinking about starting her own house. Of course Misty denies it, but she really wants more….especially when she finds out the customers are paying $100,000 a year each in membership fees.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Marsha: The Erotic Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful housewife discovers that her husband is having an affair, so while he's away on business she decides to embark on some erotic sexcapades of her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Acid Eaters (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Chappaqua (1966)
Plot Summary:
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, grindhouse, experimental, independent film, cult film
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Hallucination Generation (1966)
Plot Summary:
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Alice In Acidland (1969)
Plot Summary:
Cute and perky college student Alice is invited to a "pool party" by Freida, a female teacher who is actually a lesbian and has designs on Alice. At the party Alice gets drunk, takes acid and immediately becomes a lesbian, taking a bath with Freida. Later Alice gets mixed up with LSD-addicted hippies, rape, more lesbians, more LSD, orgies, suicide, and having sex with guys in boxers.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, erotic, art house
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Tenderness (2016)
Plot Summary:
About youth, decountrifying and attitude toward life. Julia and Patrick - living-together, careful to each other couple have to face the approaching change. Artur - self-confident, world curious egoist, works as a coach and barista at the same time. Vacillating between his choices he reaches the point when his world must be defined anew. Maria - professionally fulfilled actress, running away from any relations, rebuffs every act of closeness. In their world there is no place for great ideas. Nation, identity, politics or economy are meaningless terms regarding what matters for main characters - defining one's self through non-committal human tensions and intensities. The spectator peeks at them in seemingly trivial situations and finds out what is the titular tenderness for each of them. He may observe how the confluence of events and decisions are leading to an ending full of contradictory emotions.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Plot Summary:
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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Psych-Out (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Josie's Castle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Three free spirits cut their ties with the old-fashioned square world and shack up in a love commune. A Seventies cult favorite featuring Star Trek's George Takei (Mr. Sulu).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Trip (1967)
Plot Summary:
Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, captivating, mind bending, mysterious