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Plot Summary:
Jodi Arias befriends Donavan Bering and Tracy Brown in prison, and they became inseparable. Donavan is released from prison before Jodi's trial and becomes her mouthpiece, posting on social media and defending Jodi. When the details of the case and Jodi's story no longer add up, Donavan refuses to continue her work, bringing out Jodi's vengeful side.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Among the Living (2022)
Plot Summary:
Stranded in the aftermath of a deadly outbreak, a brother fights to protect his sister while he desperately searches to find refuge and avoid an infected population with a thirst for blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
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Three Blondes in His Life (1961)
Plot Summary:
An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, noir, mind bending, serious, futuristic, realistic, suspenseful
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Last Day (2012)
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One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse. As village folk react differently to the situation, a tragedy strikes when one of the residents is raped and her brother brutally murdered as he tries to avenge her. Steep in superstition, the villagers attribute these to the Devil himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
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Roots of Evil (1992)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective, sexy
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Carmen, Baby (1967)
Plot Summary:
Carmen, a free-spirited young woman who sometimes earns money as a prostitute, lives a bohemian existence in a small town where most of the locals allow her to do as she pleases. Jose, a naive young man who has just been hired as the town's new police officer, arrests her. However, Jose is soon drawn into Carmen's sensual spell, and he is compelled to do her bidding as she slowly brings him to his doom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, experimental, stylized, sexual, art house
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Best Friends Forever (2013)
Plot Summary:
Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and instead get a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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What Alice Found (2003)
Plot Summary:
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky
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The Man (2007)
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An undercover LAPD cop struggles to find a balance between his professional life running sting operations and his family life raising three adopted kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
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Miracle Landing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Route 9 (1998)
Plot Summary:
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Accused (2023)
Plot Summary:
In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Determination of Death (2001)
Plot Summary:
In order to free themselves from debt, a husband and wife plan to fake the husband's death but the scheme goes terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 313
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Fragments (2008)
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A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative, twisted
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Waters Rising (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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The Rebel Rousers (1970)
Plot Summary:
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Witness Protection (1999)
Plot Summary:
Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing prosecution for a number of serious crimes, Batton is offered a deal by the FBI in which he will be given immunity in exchange for testifying against his former partners. However, Batton will have to join the Federal Witness Protection Program, which means that he, his wife, and his children will never again see their friends and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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80,000 Suspects (1963)
Plot Summary:
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
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Plot tags: independent film
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Himizu (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, stylized, controversial, manga, art house, existential, twisted, realistic
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Butterfly (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Hard Eight (1996)
Plot Summary:
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 54000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 143000
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IMDB Votes: 642
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
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Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
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IMDB Votes: 158000
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Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.
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IMDB Votes: 6000
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Vanished (1998)
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Without warning, millions of people instantly vanish from the face of the earth! In the following hours civilization is torn apart as anarchy and chaos reign supreme. It is a time of Great Tribulation for those left behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
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A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 163000
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