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Plot Summary:
Two teenagers set out on a 2000-mile sailboat journey from California to Hawaii and en route combat the natural challenges and their inner shortcomings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Hunter (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Way Off Broadway (2001)
Plot Summary:
Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dreams of Glass (1970)
Plot Summary:
Dreams of Glass is a Drama starring Danny DeVito.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Good Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact on one another's lives is far greater, and more surprising, than either could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, Ireland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Slipaway (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a homeless young musician moves into a sailboat with a feisty elderly widow, the two must overcome their differences and haunting pasts to unlock each other's dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, independent film, life affirming, spiritual
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Broken Dolls (1999)
Plot Summary:
A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Safe Harbor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Rolling Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Her Last Chance (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Panic in Echo Park (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Attaway General (2020)
Plot Summary:
When four very different teens arrive at Attaway General Hospital’s prestigious volunteer program, they must learn to work together to survive the program and make a difference in the lives of their patients. With breakout performances from Dixie D'Amelio, Madi Monroe and more, Attaway General is a medical procedural with humor, excitement, and high stakes.
IMDB Rating: 1.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags:
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The Children Act (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, rough, captivating, suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, entertaining, interesting
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Villa Caprice (2020)
Plot Summary:
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Levelland (2003)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age drama, with skateboards, set in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: crying
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My Little Assassin (1999)
Plot Summary:
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his secretary and to be part of the making of the new Cuba. She accepts, but soon learns he already has a capable secretary; Marita's duties lie elsewhere. She becomes pregnant. She's also come to the attention of the FBI and the CIA, so when she wakes up in a US hospital after what may have been a botched abortion against her will in Cuba, her government presses her into service as an assassin: her job, to go back to Cuba and kill her former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Face in the Mirror (1982)
Plot Summary:
The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Hard Feelings (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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In His Steps (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a homeless man interrupts the comfortable routine of First Church of Raymond, life will never be the same for the apathetic congregation. Convicted by the vagrant's words, Pastor Henry Maxwell, Rachel Winslow, Virginia Page, Alex Powers, and Jasper Chase are thrust into a journey of discovering what life is like beyond "Christianity as usual." But as they find themselves opposed by family strife, church politics, and scorned lovers, will they be able to keep their commitment, or will they be dragged back into fruitless lives?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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White Mama (1980)
Plot Summary:
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic
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Hurry Sundown (1967)
Plot Summary:
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cult film
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The Last Survivors (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Heart of Darkness (1993)
Plot Summary:
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, suspenseful
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Waterborne (2005)
Plot Summary:
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, captivating, intercultural, inter cultural
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Chelsea Walls (2001)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: meditative, intense, touching, serious, talky, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, entertaining, detective
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Along the Way (2007)
Plot Summary:
A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a haunting portrait of American Youth. A profound and poignant story about friendship, the moments that shape us and an unforgettable story that deserves it place among the best and brightest that the independent film world has to offer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Plot Summary:
Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school. His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly come to town to live with him. However Henry's hot temper leads him into knife fights, and jeopardizes his parole. Written by Will Gilbert.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, esoteric, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, neo noir
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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Surface (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Canvas (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, rough, melancholic, psychological
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Hide Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, independent film