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Plot Summary:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic, campy
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The Oscar (1966)
Plot Summary:
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for Best actor at the Academy Awards.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, detective, campy, cult film
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Of Human Bondage (1964)
Plot Summary:
Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infideliy, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, medical drama, period drama
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Orson Welles' unfinished masterpiece, restored and assembled based on Welles' own notes. During the last 15 years of his life, Welles, who died in 1985, worked obsessively on the film, which chronicles a temperamental film director—much like him—who is battling with the Hollywood establishment to finish an iconoclastic work.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Iran, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: parody, psychological, realistic, surreal, thought provoking, captivating, independent film, art film, visual, cult classic
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Black Starlet (1974)
Plot Summary:
Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Depraved! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Features the lives of three swingers couples whose debauched lifestyle of drugs, swapping mates, and abuse begins to catch up to all six of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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The Third Girl from the Left (1973)
Plot Summary:
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub comedian is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Movie (1971)
Plot Summary:
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, mondo, cult classic, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, contemplative, neo noir
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The Trade Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, disturbing, erotic drama, independent film, black comedy
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Starlet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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The State of Things (1982)
Plot Summary:
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: spiritual, contemplative, black and white, independent film, clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, metafiction
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Strangers Kiss (1983)
Plot Summary:
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, eighties
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Stand-ins (1997)
Plot Summary:
Six women who came to Hollywood with the dream of becoming famous find themselves working as stand-ins for the glamorous stars of the late 1930s. Gathering for a birthday celebration at their local watering hole, they introduce a new member to the group -- instigating a turn of events that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, period piece
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Butterfly Caught (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three beautiful aspiring actresses embark on a mission to break into the competitive Los Angeles acting scene only to discover the road leading to stardom comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, touching
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Kamikaze Hearts (1986)
Plot Summary:
Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore's 1986 documentary about a lesbian couple working in the porn industry—a cynical older woman (Sharon “Mitch” Mitchell), who is a seasoned porn star, and her lover (known as Tigr), who is an uneasy newcomer to this world, where drugs play a significant role—offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, sensual, independent film, queer cinema
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LUMA (2015)
Plot Summary:
The young, pregnant housewife Jennifer- nickname LUMA- meets the self confident, bisexual Christiane. Their friendship develops up to an vehement love affair, which is driving Luma into an turmoil of emotions. Raised up under catholic influence, she is torn between the life her husband Georg and the new fascinating experience, she is going through with Christiane. Luma is under raising pressure, to come to an final decision about her future.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, suspense, contemplative, independent film
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Plot Summary:
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: retro, meta, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, soap opera
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The Lonely Lady (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Wager (2007)
Plot Summary:
An actor at the pinnacle of his Hollywood career finds himself buckling to temptation after he accepts the lead in a classic tale of good versus evil. Michael Steele has just been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. In the wake of that announcement, Michael is cast in what may be the role of a lifetime. He's set to play the lead in an incredible story of monumental conflict, but will all of the swirling gossip around Michael cause him to stumble on the path of righteousness? His marriage is in jeopardy and his career is on the line. This man who has always tried to do the right thing must find the courage and conviction needed to set his life straight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, realistic, thought provoking, contemplative, gloomy
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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Exotica (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's owner, Zoe. Meanwhile Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives. Gradually, connections between the traumatic pasts of these characters are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, cerebral, psychological, non-linear, philosophical, neo noir, erotic drama, sexy
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Love Scenes (1984)
Plot Summary:
Acclaimed actress Val Binnes decides to play a bold and uninhibited role in a controversial new movie for her ambitious, but neglectful and self-absorbed director husband Peter. Val finds herself becoming too caught up in the risqué part, throws caution to the wind, and has an adulterous affair with her hunky, but arrogant leading man Rick. Can Val and Peter's marriage survive the pressure and problems of making the picture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film, hot
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Plot Summary:
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, independent film, mockumentary, humorous, fake documentary, cult film
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This Girl's Life (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags:
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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989)
Plot Summary:
The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Plot Summary:
When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft (Coral Browne) is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: sexual, dark comedy, independent film, sadistic, soap opera, serious, realistic, witty, biting, erotic
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Dangerous Game (1993)
Plot Summary:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough, art house, independent film, erotic drama, bleak, serious
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Network (1976)
Plot Summary:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: talky, political, realistic, clever, dark comedy, biting, black comedy, captivating, absurd, intense