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Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
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Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Plot Summary:
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Rage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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A Woman, a Part (2016)
Plot Summary:
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Trouble in the Heights (2011)
Plot Summary:
Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Transit (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: experimental
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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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Lustre (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Lustre" chronicles a change in heart, a spiritual awakening through the rise of an unlikely holy man. Filmed on the streets of New York in the year after the Twin Towers fell, "Lustre" tells a story of renewal in uncertain times.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Approaching Union Square (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on stage monologues, Approaching Union Square is a collage of eleven tales capturing thirty-something New Yorkers struggling to find love and connection in the big city. They all cross paths on a New York City bus.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dread
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Love Rome (2004)
Plot Summary:
Vignettes about four different couples in New York City coming to terms with their lives six months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, semi documentary
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The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Safe Place (1971)
Plot Summary:
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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One Naked Night (1965)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her prostitute mother, a young woman travels to New York City only to find herself in the clutches of lecherous men and deviate women. She tries to avoid the fast nightlife lifestyle, but she finds it more difficult than it sounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Redlight Greenlight (2010)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years of toil, a moral, determined and penniless agent trainee is given his only and last opportunity to make agent. Standing in his way; a 24 hour time frame, Hollywood's most amoral, hyper ambitious and successful agent deciding his fate, and his conscience.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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For Michelle (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in time to claim the young girl and prove that he will be a suitable Father. The consequences of his actions follow him, however, putting his life in danger, and potentially ruining his chance to save the child from foster care by raising doubts in the mind of his case worker, whom he has become romantically involved with.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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I, a Man (1967)
Plot Summary:
I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women over the course of the film. The women are: a young woman who worries about parental acceptance of her sexuality, a woman who is on a couch, a woman with whom he does a seance, a woman who speaks French, a lesbian, and a married woman. Almost of these scenes seem to be totally improvised and just so bored. Except, the most interesting part about I, A Man is also the most interesting scene of I, A Man. The second to last woman of the movie is Valerie Solanas, who would eventually shoot Warhol […]. (cont. http://theotherfilms.blogspot.de/2013/11/i-man-1967-women-and-sex.html).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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The Warrior and the Savior (2013)
Plot Summary:
Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating
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The Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must deliver.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, talky, uplifting
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the earlier bombing attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Out of Step (2002)
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Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny must fight to earn her scholarship and try to find a balance between the man of her faith and the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Citizen (2012)
Plot Summary:
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September terrorist attacks forever shape the struggles he faces on his journey to capture the American dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, uplifting, independent film
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Noel (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film, gloomy, iconic
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X/Y (2014)
Plot Summary:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sexy, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, erotic
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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and the desire to explore.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Into the Fire (2005)
Plot Summary:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, gloomy
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Pretenders (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, art house
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Quiet City (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric, sincere, serious, avant garde
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September 11 (2002)
Plot Summary:
11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, France, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, USA, Iran
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: disturbing, intellectual, talky, stylized, factual, emotional, bleak, serious, anthology, political