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Plot Summary:
After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the powers to heal. First she uses the power to heal herself and then turns to others. However, her powers are beyond healing psychic scars that exist between her and her mother. Meanwhile, her best friend and her doctor struggle to understand her newfound abilities.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Best tv shows and movies like Resurrection (1999):
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Wheeler (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. By embodying the title character under prosthetic make up, actor Stephen Dorff successfully infiltrates Music City and takes his character on an authentic singer / songwriter journey. With the help of key allies on the ground, "Wheeler" converses with real people in real locations, with every musical number performed live. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary
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Above All Things (2018)
Plot Summary:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Sirens (1999)
Plot Summary:
Who can you turn to when protectors become predators? Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, and Brian Dennehy star in this moving, suspenseful drama about one woman's courageous battle to bring a rogue cop to justice. Sally Rawlings (Delany), a corporate executive with a bright future, watches her life spin out of control after a policeman, Officer Wexler (Carradine), cold-bloodedly kills her ex-husband before her very eyes. Wexler is acquitted of any wrongdoing, and Sally finds herself standing alone against a shocking police department cover-up. Thwarted at every turn by a system steeped in deceit and corruption, Sally takes the law into her own hands. Hacking into computer files, staking out Wexler and questioning witnesses, Sally will risk everything – including her own life – to expose the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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Cassiopeia (2022)
Plot Summary:
Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in to help Su-jin take care of Gina. The three live together for some time, until one day, Su-jin gets into a car accident and receives an unexpected diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
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Two Days, Nine Lives (2001)
Plot Summary:
A drug addict checks into rehab.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
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Hot Rod (1979)
Plot Summary:
A drag-racer enters a local championship race. However, he runs up against the town boss, a corrupt sheriff who has already made arrangements to ensure that his own son wins the race.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Desperate Lives (1982)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Cru (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Five Minutes to Love (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ben, Edna and their baby daughter are headed to California when their car breaks down. Ben ventures off to the junkyard in search of a spare part to fix his car. Coincidentally, Harry (the seedy junkyard owner) has just been accused by the police of selling stolen auto parts, and claims that he gets his cars from someone else. Ben wanders into the junkyard just in time for Harry to frame him and use him as a scapegoat. When Ben doesn't return after quite a while, Edna goes looking for him. She is then chased around the junkyard by Harry's odd, dim-witted friend Blowhard.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Search for the Gods (1975)
Plot Summary:
Two young people search for a valuable medallion, which they believe will prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, prehistoric
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Uta (1969)
Plot Summary:
Girl-on-girl lust with a nubile 20-year-old discovering herself in hippie-covered San Francisco by -- what else? -- becoming a hooker.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tension, grindhouse, suspense, sexploitation film
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A Death in the Family (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Sins of the mind (1997)
Plot Summary:
A typical American family - photographer father, two talented daughters, Michelle an accomplished commercial artist with a clear upward career path. Then she has an auto accident, and the head trauma leaves behavioral changes. The part of the brain involved in impulse control is damaged (but the lesion is not visible on the usual CAT scan, and psychological tests are not done). Michelle has no control of her sexual impulses, and changes to 'a thief, a liar, and a whore' as her eventual therapist puts it. The family is broken apart, her sister and mother leave, but the father remains convinced that the daughter he loves is in there somewhere. It is a long and harrowing road to understanding of her sex addiction, and the end is not certain, but hopeful.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Cowboys Don't Cry (1988)
Plot Summary:
A father and son struggle to make ends meet on the rodeo circuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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The Truth Below (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four friends decide to spend their Spring Break at a ski resort. But, on their way back, they decide to take a short-cut. Off the road and now buried under over a ton of snow, they begin to realize they don't really know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Johnny Belinda (1982)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to set up a communal garden in the poverty stricken rural community of Hatcher, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a silent, mute, disheveled girl by the name of Belinda. He soon learns that she is considered mentally handicapped by the community, and by her harsh father and aunt, who initially rebuff all attempts at communication and assistance from Bill. He persists in making contact, and discovers that Belinda is actually deaf. He realizes that he can communicate with her using sign language, and teaches her to sign. Gradually, Belinda's world opens up but life is not all smooth sailing, however, as Bill deals with the sneers and jeers of the town's bad boy, Kyle Hager and his group of rowdy friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Women in Chains (1972)
Plot Summary:
1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Swimming Upstream (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem of all... he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The only support he receives is from a sister who also lives a fractured life, his immature best friend, and his girlfriend. "Swimming Upstream" is a moving and honest look at life's painful realities and how this teen deals with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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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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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Plot Summary:
A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire "smash up" from various angles and in slow motion, depicting much carnage and indifference to the victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Why me? (1984)
Plot Summary:
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Captain Milkshake (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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Sinner (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a secret he has hidden from his diocese and parish. Through this unlikely muse, Anthony finds a path to regain his honor and calling in a post-scandal world where priests are guilty until proven innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Resurrection (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, contemplative, psychotronic, spiritual
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The Big Fall (1997)
Plot Summary:
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, neo noir
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The World Made Straight (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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A Brother's Kiss (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie trying to make ends meet and failing. One day Lex calls Mick - he has a problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, rough, bleak, erotic, independent film, realistic, gloomy
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Baby for Sale (2004)
Plot Summary:
A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic