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Plot Summary:
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Museo (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: road movie, thought provoking, captivating, tense, suspense, art house, masterpiece
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Mi Socio (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Johnny Greyeyes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Left Right Left (2013)
Plot Summary:
The basic story of the movie revolves around P.K. Jayan aka 'Vattu' Jayan (played by Indrajith) and Roy Joseph aka Che Guevera Roy (played by Murali Gopy). Vattu Jayan is a corrupt cop who manages his daily necessities through bribed money and does not touch his salary for anything. Che Guevara Roy is an ex-communist comrade who now teaches in a school with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: political
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Follow Me Home (1996)
Plot Summary:
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black woman. Together, these four men and one woman encounter racism, sexism, internal conflicts, and finally redemption as they discover their common humanity and their internal ability to conquer the societal ills that effect them all.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spiritual, independent film
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Elijah (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Elijah Harper.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
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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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And So It Is (1966)
Plot Summary:
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Skinwalkers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
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The Magnet (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends, all around 30, who live in the Le Panier district of Marseille, France. It's not a bad life, made up of slightly shady dealings, nights out, sun and just hanging out. But the neighborhood is an inescapable presence. Over a period of a few summer days, their carefree lives will plunge into a predictable tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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United Red Army (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, bleak, political, anime, realistic, avant garde
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Birds of Passage (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous Wayuu family get involved in a booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honour collide, a fratricidal war breaks out that will put their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, political, factual, tense, suspense, retro, social, artsy
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In the Dark (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood messenger must endure cruelty and humiliation as he struggles for a chance to succeed. But when he's offered a lucrative opportunity, he must decide between compromising his closest friendship or giving his racist bosses the retribution they so richly deserve.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, serious, independent film, humorous, semi serious, suspense, hispanic
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The Sunchaser (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young half-Navajo convict (Jon Seda) dying of cancer forces a yuppie (Woody Harrelson) doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, melancholic, touching, emotional, realistic, tense, serious, atmospheric, uplifting, spiritual
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Skins (2002)
Plot Summary:
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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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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Sister (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social, action thriller, sincere, gloomy, crying
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Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, tense, realistic, gloomy, weird
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Steel Toes (2006)
Plot Summary:
Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, disturbing, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political, detective, thought provoking
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Once Were Warriors (1994)
Plot Summary:
A drama about a Maori family lving in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, depressing, controversial, sincere, emotional, realistic, dark, existential, powerful
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Frozen River (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: melancholic, emotional, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, road movie, suspense, tense
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Madeinusa (2006)
Plot Summary:
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, dark, political, realistic, witty
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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Plot Summary:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political, serious, realistic, 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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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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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Older Than America (2008)
Plot Summary:
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, independent film
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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