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Plot Summary:
Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Just Be There (1973)
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Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran, returns home to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Kathy and intends to write a novel about his war experiences, but is pushed by his overbearing father into a job selling pork bellies at a commodities firm. Quickly promoted to vice president for his work during the day, while writing the novel at night, proves too much for Mitchell; fearing that he has "sold out," he takes off on his motorcycle to "get his head together" early '70s-style. Somehow, schlockmeister Jack H. Harris (producer of THE BLOB) took this film and re-released it as something sexy called SWINGING TEACHER.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Loners (1972)
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On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and more death. The police intensify the search, but the three won't give up that easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Horoscope (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Texas Lightning (1981)
Plot Summary:
A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Aside (1999)
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Rex and Rica are G.I. babies born to American fathers they never knew. Raised by a rich, gay adoptive father, Rex grew up feeling worthless and alone. Rica was brought up by an arrogant aunt who always makes her feel like she's a good for nothing bitch. One day, his foster father is killed, and Rex is accused of the crime. Rica, on the other hand, flees from her cruel aunt. Their paths cross as they both try to escape their predicaments. Crime and passion draw them to each other, and the thrill of it all drives them to yearn for more. But truth has its way of signifying itself: the day comes when they both learn that they have the same father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Maximum Breakout (1991)
Plot Summary:
Vacationing lovers Travis and Bobbi encounter an unexpected nightmare on a lonely country road. Two strangers kidnap Bobbi, and brutally beat Travis. Six months later, though Bobbi's family is wealthy, there's no ransom demand, and the police, even Travis's boss, Detective Wyatt, have all but given up. Only Travis, encouraged by Bobbi's best friend Debbie, keeps searching for Bobbi. Travis teams up with Debbie's brother Reb, who assembles a team to rescue Bobbi. Other than Travis and Reb, the team consists of the Professor, a computer nerd who likes to blow things up, Loch, a gun-crazy nut case, and a stuntman named Suicide. Together, they track Bobbi to an isolated ranch where blond, blue-eyed women are forced to bear children who are sold to desperate couples by a man named Frank and his boss, an icy woman with a Southern accent. Now Travis and the team must plan a way to infiltrate the ranch and rescue Bobbi and the other women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Cycle Vixens (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three Colorado girls decide to hop on their motorcycles and head to California. On the way they get mixed up in drugs, rape and stolen motorcycles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Summertime Killer (1972)
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This multinational crime action film also boasts an international cast. During his childhood, a boy (Chris Mitchum) sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter (Claudine Auger) and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop (Karl Malden) has been tracking them down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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You Carry Me (2015)
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Dora is a neglected girl, who dreams about becoming a football manager. Suddenly, her outlaw father enters her life and they build a close relationship. Ives, a soap opera director, nurses her father who suffers from Alzheimer’s. As she loses him, she gradually loses the ground beneath her feet. Nataša, successful producer, is pregnant. When things go awry for her, she decides to confront her estranged father. Three daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Black Angels (1970)
Plot Summary:
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, political, independent film
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Ring of Steel (1994)
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A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, action adventure, neo noir, independent film
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A golpes (2005)
Plot Summary:
The first half of this movie may be tasteless: there is this bunch of girls and boys living in the working class suburbs of Madrid around the boxing club, some action, some sex, not going nowhere, but soon the characters begin to sharpen, the story takes shape around persons and groups. One can expect things to get bad in any moment but psychology takes over easy violence on the screen and the second half is a much more captivating linear part, where the characters have more convincing roles. Nathalia Verbeke is amazing, once again!, in a new and physically demanding role. Can't keep from comparing her with Hilary Swank performance in Million Dollar Baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Stories from the Kronen (1995)
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Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, tragic ending, homoerotic, sexy
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Ride The Hot Wind (1973)
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Captain Shank is an outcast officer and gets dishonorably discharged. He tries to get back on his feet, but his reputation keeps following him around ruining everything. When he meets some bikers he gets caught up in a life he tries desperately to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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The Jesus Trip (1971)
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When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna (Tippy Walker) and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him. (alfiehitchie).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
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Angel (William Smith), an outlaw biker, sells out his gang by exposing their wild conquests to Like magazine for $10,000. With his photo on the cover, Angel skips town and tries to start over with help from sheep rancher Dan Felton (Dan Kemp). An ex-motorcycle enthusiast, Dan becomes a mentor to Angel, giving him hope for a peaceful future. But Angel must put hope aside when members of his former gang viciously attack Dan's teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Hell's Angels '69 (1969)
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Two brothers have a plan on how to rob the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas. They join a motorcycle gang and while the others are drinking and partying outside of town, they change their clothes and head off to rob the casino. Of course, the police do not look for two well dressed criminals among the Hell's Angels.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, psychotronic, independent film
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Cop Killers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Hitchhikers (1972)
Plot Summary:
This enjoyably goofy'n'duffy piece of 70's drive-in fluff centers on a six woman outlaw gang who prey on hapless backwoods motorists. The gals are owned and trained by the amiable, scruffy, pleasantly mellow Manson-like Benson (shaggy hairball Norman Klar), a charismatically breezy anti-establishment type who wants to raise enough money to purchase a bus so he and his female family can go to California.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, road movie
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The Black Six (1973)
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A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: absurd, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Bury Me an Angel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie, independent film
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C.C. & Company (1970)
Plot Summary:
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann's admiring eye. His win puts him at odds with Moon, leader of "The Heads." When C.C. leaves with his cut of the purse, the bikers kidnap Ann, and C.C. races Moon to win her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Dirt Gang (1972)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Subterfuge (1996)
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Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. With his computer-hacker younger brother, Slade travels to a resort on the Russian-Turkish border to begin his quest. To his surprise and dismay, he's now joined by another secret agent, a beautiful but highly-skilled woman named Alex. As they begin diving in search of the downed jetliner, Slade and Alex begin to suspect they're being manipulated by higher-ups who may not be committed to American interests.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Heroes (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult film
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MacArthur Park (2001)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, rough, serious, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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The Etruscan Smile (2018)
Plot Summary:
Relative newcomers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis are directing from a script by Michael McGowan, Sarah Bellwood and Michal Lali Kagan. The story follows tough old Scotsman Rory MacNeil as he travels from his home in the remote island of Vallasay, Scotland to San Francisco. Seeking treatment for a terminal illness the colorful character stays with his son and his family. Rory finds his precious days left alive transformed as he bonds with his American grandson. Based on the Spanish novel La sonrisa etrusca by José Luis Sampedro, the story's setting has been shifted from Italy to the US.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Death in Texas (2020)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a liver transplant and she is all out of legal options.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo western
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Digging for Fire (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, sincere, serious, talky, independent film, cult classic, light hearted