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Plot Summary:
A cop "drops out" and becomes a polygamist, ultimately taking on 12 wives, and begins his own town with his "family". The authorities are repulsed by his eccentric lifestyle, and he finds himself being investigated by them on charges of drug trafficking and fencing stolen property. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unexpected Race (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Amber is sent to live with her father who she hasn't seen in over 10 years after suffering a car accident that takes the life of her mother. As Amber is healing she discovers a man hiding in the woods that is an elf. She finds out Elves have always lived, but he is the last being a FBI agent was sent out to destroy them. As they fall in love, Lythorin must make a decision if he wants to stay with Amber or stay alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
Plot Summary:
1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, suspenseful
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Fever Pitch (1985)
Plot Summary:
An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - organized gambling.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending
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Swamp Girl (1971)
Plot Summary:
A little blonde girl who is abandoned by her parents in the Florida swamps is rescued and raised by a black man she calls her "Pa".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Delta Fever (1987)
Plot Summary:
As he strives to make it on his own, Nick Ramsey has alienated his father by rejecting his upbringing and lifestyle. Now 25, Nick has been rejected by his girlfriend and vows to turn his life around.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Venice/Venice (1992)
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 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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Rooster: Spurs of Death! (1978)
Plot Summary:
70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I'll Meet You There (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Muslim cop goes undercover at his estranged father's mosque while his daughter hides her passion for a forbidden dance, uncovering a shocking family secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Female Slaves Revenge (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, cult film
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Nicole (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to, Nicole begins to spin out of control. Her decadent and lustful life leads to murder, despair and, ultimately, mournful regret in this cautionary tale for the idle rich who have too much money and time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Fish Hawk (1979)
Plot Summary:
A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Drunktown's Finest (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual - search for love and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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The Exiles (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story of one wild but typical night in the lives of three young American Indians who have left their reservations to live in downtown Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Frequent Flyer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drama about airline pilot who is married to two separate women in separate towns and who eventually takes on a third wife. Much to his dismay, the separate worlds he lives in begin to collide, and the truth of his womanizing and bigamy begin to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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One Shocking Moment (1965)
Plot Summary:
Hunky businessman Cliff and his sweet wife Mindy move from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Los Angeles, California. They take up residence in an apartment complex where several lovely young ladies also live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird, cult film
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'68 (1988)
Plot Summary:
'68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing times and each other. The year covered was one of particular cultural change in the US and this interplays with the cultural changes occurring around Zoltan, his wife and his two college-age sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, soap opera
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Out of Step (2002)
Plot Summary:
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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Hallucination Generation (1966)
Plot Summary:
A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The 19th Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son Jordan for help in freeing his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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The Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
A short film that tells the story of three older men who come into the same restaurant on Wednesday mornings at the same time every week. The story is told from the perspective of Megan, the newly hired waitress at the restaurant that takes classes at night. Through her deliberate acts of respect and purposeful efforts to get to know these gentlemen the shroud of their grumpy appearance is lifted and as the men open up the impact of their life stories extend beyond Megan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Naturally Native (1998)
Plot Summary:
Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity issues and each has chosen a very different career path. Now dedicated to starting a Native cosmetic business, they attempt to overcome obstacles both in the business world and in the home. A touching love story of family and culture, Naturally Native also interweaves a subtle, but strong wake-up call regarding the treatment of Native people in corporate America. Naturally Native also provides some insight into tribal infrastructure and gaming issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Winter in the Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching for is his own uncertain identity and a glimpse of salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, offbeat, gloomy, independent film, neo western
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Shouting Secrets (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, interesting
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Black Cloud (2004)
Plot Summary:
Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sincere, touching, serious, colorful, emotional, realistic
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The Alley Tramp (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these years, but has decided to tell his story now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kobelski is skeptical of his neighbor's story, after his investigations provide ambiguous answers. His attitude changes, however, after he receives threatening messages on his answering machine, and spots shadowy figures in his backyard. Is Ohlinger telling the truth? Or is there a bigger conspiracy at work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, tense, realistic, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, philosophical, cerebral, serious, thought provoking