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Plot Summary:
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, romantic, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, heartbreaking, melancholic
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The Long Shadow (1992)
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The story of a young man, a famous stage actor, who is notified of the death of his father whom he has never seen. In Israel where his father is buried, he meets with his father's young widow, as well as with a movie director who need the son to play his father in a missing scene about his father, an archeologist. But the physical similarities are too much for the young widow and she soon finds herself falling in love with her stepson.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, USA, Hungary
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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35 Days: A Post-Production Odyssey (2016)
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Indie-film director Eric Cutter's attempt to complete his long-abandoned third feature film, "Gunman," in time for a local film festival.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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On the Nickel (1980)
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feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his old friends living on Los Angeles' skid row (Fifth Street - hence the film's title). Eventually finding his best friend, "C.G." (Waite), still living on the nickel, the two men reminisce, and Sam gets a fresh look at the lifestyle he had once vigorously abandoned. The film is a multi-level odyssey through the slums of L.A., as well Sam's personal ruminations as he re-evaluates the nostalgia he had felt for the free and bohemian lifestyle of a street person.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Redemption (2003)
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Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- landing acting jobs and dating beautiful women. Christian thinks he is at his prime, until he has a falling out with Tony over drugs. He soon learns that the same connections that enabled him to get his start and realize his dream can just as easily destroy it. Hiding the truth of his washed-up career from family and friends, Christian escapes his reality through intense drug use - beginning his fatal turn of fate. Will Christian ever turn his life around? Will he find redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Brando Unauthorized (2010)
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This biopic of the legendary actor Marlon Brando stars Damian Chapa as the two-time Oscar-winner and focuses primarily on the troubled relationship Brando had with his son Christian who battled drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Someone to Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
During a party at movie director Danny's home, a group of friends and actors people are reunited to converse about love and relationship. Orson Welles is the "judge" of these conversations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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Nightingales (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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A Safe Place (1971)
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A young woman named Noah lives alone in New York. She is a disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place." As a child she met a magician in Central Park who presented her with magical objects: a levitating silver ball, a star ring, and a Noah's ark. She is romantically involved with two totally different men. Fred is practical but dull. Mitch is dynamic and sexy, her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to totally fulfill her needs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, independent film, experimental
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Transit (2005)
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After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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Long Shot (1978)
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A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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September 30, 1955 (1977)
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Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a young man who idolized the rising star. Racked with grief, Jimmy holds a vigil that quickly devolves into a drunken spectacle with its own catastrophic consequences. Dennis Quaid also stars in "September 30, 1955": a day that forever changed the lives of many.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Fix (2008)
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FIX takes you from Beverly Hills to Watts, and places in between, in one day, as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: uplifting, captivating, witty, semi serious, independent film, exciting, offbeat, realistic, fast, psychological thriller
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Malibu (1983)
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A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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The State of Things (1982)
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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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Heartbreakers (1984)
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Best friends Eli and Blue, both at a crossroads in their professional lives, find their friendship put to the test when they become preoccupied with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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Starstruck (1998)
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A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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Always (1985)
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A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
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Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological, realistic, visually appealing, serious, sad, anime
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I Am (2010)
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In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they are each joined by a mysterious companion -- ever present with a loving guidance without judgment for their actions. The more they attempt to fix their lives, the deeper they sink into chaos, pain, and loss. In addition, we discover that sin is a matrix connecting even the most remote of strangers to one another. It is at this breaking point when we see the presence of this companion was no accident. He was the ever-loving constant who refused to abandon His people -- even when they abandoned Him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, spiritual, sincere, independent film
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Tracks (1976)
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A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: indie film, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Ever After (2014)
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Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Pornographer (1999)
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A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, independent film
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Novitiate (2017)
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In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, social, sad, controversial, costume drama, queer cinema
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Hollywood Dreams (2006)
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The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
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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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Queen of the Lot (2010)
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An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Eating (1990)
Plot Summary:
At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1992)
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Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and her men. As Helen's exploits with controlling lover Paul (Michael Cerveris), casual beau Randy (Grant Show) and friend Donald (Lance Edwards) become fodder for her script, her choice becomes clear.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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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