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Plot Summary:
An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Drying Up the Streets (1978):
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Gypsy Angels (1990)
Plot Summary:
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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A Journey Through Pines (2017)
Plot Summary:
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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On the Block (1990)
Plot Summary:
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland. -- KillerMovies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Love Cult (1966)
Plot Summary:
A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts.".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Demain (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman taking care of her diabetic father gets involved in a one way relationship. Portrait of a generation about to replace another, Demain is a film based on an inertia marked youth, and on it's precursors confronted to their own disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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High (1968)
Plot Summary:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film
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Queen of the Blues (1979)
Plot Summary:
A seedy striptease club in London's West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Melissa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Szerencse lányai (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Run, Tecato, Run (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on true incidents, Run, Tecato, Run depicts a junkie's efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter. Produced for $60,000, the film explores the connections between the Vietnam War, drug addiction and crime—juxtaposing these against Mexican American family, culture and spirituality.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Street Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Angel has become a dancer in a topless bar, and her dealer boyfriend is turning her on to heroin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Waitresses Wanted (2008)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian native Priscilla Paredes is intent on staying in Montreal, despite the expiration of her student visa. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an exotic dancer at the Elixir, a downtown strip club, where she meets Milagro, a headstrong Quebecoise and fellow dancer who, ironically, longs to move to Brazil. Priscilla is welcomed into Milagro's secret family life, and introduced to her young daughter Chloé; Milagro in turn teaches Priscilla how to fight for what she wants, for what she needs.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Suki (2023)
Plot Summary:
A lady stripper and a gigolo promised each other that their work can't break them apart. But when lust and temptation come into the picture, they begin to question their vow.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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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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Le sphinx (1995)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Sinner (1974)
Plot Summary:
The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse
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You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder (2023)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they encounter some interesting characters and obstacles while sorting out their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Molly & Gina (1994)
Plot Summary:
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Dumont's Case (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michel Dumont is charged, judged and sentenced for a rape he denies ever having committed. While he serves his time in prison, Solange, who he fell in love with during his trial, embarks on the colossal task of proving his innocence and having the court rehabilitate him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Madonna: A Case of Blood Ambition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man is convicted of raping and murdering a child and sent to prison. He is shortly afterwards beaten to death by other inmates. His daughter blames the jurors who convicted him for his death, and she hatches a scheme to murder each of the jury members, often seducing them herself first.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Just a Game (1983)
Plot Summary:
In a strangely aloof and uninvolved story of incest, director Brigitte Sauriol takes a certain distance in her treatment of a couple with two daughters on a summer vacation in Quebec. Scenes with the father and older daughter soon reveal that an incestuous relationship has been going on for a long time, without the mother's knowledge. The older daughter tries to run away at one point and talk to a friend about her plight, but that does not turn out successfully. She begins to suspect her father is starting to violate her sister as well. When the mother accidentally catches her husband with the younger daughter, she reacts with anger, but after her husband promises to reform, she calms down and eventually takes his side against her daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending
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Toys Are Not for Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around--by becoming a hooker! Playing "daddy's little girl" with dirty old men, she finds true happiness until a friend arranges a special "date" between Jamie and her whore-hungry dad that, to put it mildly, does not go well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, independent film
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, experimental
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Return of the Secret Society (1968)
Plot Summary:
Babette and her sexual exploits, narrating her Emmanuelle-style lustful encounters in the big city. Babette needs cash, contacts a photographer, and enters a new society where she satisfies her carnal desires. Soon, as her lesbian awakening flourishes, Babette will meet the "daughters of lesbos" and the rest is history.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film
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All Hell Let Loose (2002)
Plot Summary:
Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bilingual
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Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Hardcore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, erotic, psychological, art house, retro, depressing, slasher, social, controversial