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Plot Summary:
This biopic of the legendary actor Marlon Brando stars Damian Chapa as the two-time Oscar-winner and focuses primarily on the troubled relationship Brando had with his son Christian who battled drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Right of Jesus (2008)
Plot Summary:
"El Derecho de Jesús" is a character driven drama in which Jesús, a Mexican-American college student tries to overcome contemporary family issues and unstable love relationships. His past and present eventually collide forcing him to take a stand.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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The Famous Joe Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Joe, in the midst of dropping out of college and coming out as gay, decides to record the everyday activities of his life on a handheld mini-video and post the clips to the internet. Soon after he begins this experiment, Joe meets Jesus, a narcissistic hustler drawn to the idea of constantly being on camera.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Something About Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Homefront (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left his husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an alcoholic. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to maintain a connection with J.P., and Elaine is strongly against it.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On the Nickel (1980)
Plot Summary:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his old friends living on Los Angeles' skid row (Fifth Street - hence the film's title). Eventually finding his best friend, "C.G." (Waite), still living on the nickel, the two men reminisce, and Sam gets a fresh look at the lifestyle he had once vigorously abandoned. The film is a multi-level odyssey through the slums of L.A., as well Sam's personal ruminations as he re-evaluates the nostalgia he had felt for the free and bohemian lifestyle of a street person.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Redemption (2003)
Plot Summary:
Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- landing acting jobs and dating beautiful women. Christian thinks he is at his prime, until he has a falling out with Tony over drugs. He soon learns that the same connections that enabled him to get his start and realize his dream can just as easily destroy it. Hiding the truth of his washed-up career from family and friends, Christian escapes his reality through intense drug use - beginning his fatal turn of fate. Will Christian ever turn his life around? Will he find redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Right to Remain Silent (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paly is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals. Under the supervision of a tough but likable mentor, Christine quickly learns that hers is like no other desk job in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Nightingales (1988)
Plot Summary:
Five pretty nurse students and their boss Leonore are the focus of this TV series. They are all living together in a villa called "Nightingale House" located in Los Angeles. Leonore has a complicated private relation to one of the physicians (Barry Newman). Allyson, the sexy blonde, is always falling for the wrong guy. There is also Yolanda, the underprivileged minority student Yolanda and Samantha who has problems to look after her illegitimate daughter Megan and study as hard as the others at the same time. Becky is the naive girl from the country side.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Transit (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic
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Come the Morning (1993)
Plot Summary:
In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things start to turn around for them when the mother meets a Christian missionary.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wild Honey (1972)
Plot Summary:
Country girl comes to the big city, gets into all kinds of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hollywood After Dark (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young girl comes to Hollywood to try to break into the movies, but winds up being taken advantage of by sleazy producers, and is forced to become a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The D.A. (2004)
Plot Summary:
The D.A. is an American legal drama television series that aired from March 19 until April 9, 2004.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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Panic in Echo Park (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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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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Malibu (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Dream (2013)
Plot Summary:
A news writer finds himself caught up in a world of sex, drugs and corporate takeovers as he tries to solve a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, semi serious
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No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016)
Plot Summary:
Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father, while establishing unexpected connections along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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All About Nina (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic, emotional, romantic comedy, cult classic, independent film
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Heartbreakers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Eli and Blue, both at a crossroads in their professional lives, find their friendship put to the test when they become preoccupied with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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One More Chance (1981)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, student film
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L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
Plot Summary:
Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas Brackman, Jr. as the senior managing partner. New employees to the firm are Brackman's over-achieving son Jason, who's at odds with his father, and ambitious and conniving associate Chloe Carpenter at odds with others. Former partner Michael Kuzak, is called out of retirement to help stop the impeding execution of a former client on death row. Meanwhile, divorce lawyer Arnie Becker deals with his toughest divorce: his own, where his estranged young wife has hired former McKenzie-Brackman lawyer Abby Perkins as her legal representation. Office manager Roxanne Melman deals with her ex-husband, Dave Meyer, who claims that he's dying and wants to spend some quality time with her. - Written by Matthew Patay.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Plot Summary:
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic
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Violent Blue (2011)
Plot Summary:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks her in a cage.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, surreal, cynical, psychological, tense, captivating, gloomy, independent film, psychological thriller
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I Am (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they are each joined by a mysterious companion -- ever present with a loving guidance without judgment for their actions. The more they attempt to fix their lives, the deeper they sink into chaos, pain, and loss. In addition, we discover that sin is a matrix connecting even the most remote of strangers to one another. It is at this breaking point when we see the presence of this companion was no accident. He was the ever-loving constant who refused to abandon His people -- even when they abandoned Him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, spiritual, sincere, independent film
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My Family (1995)
Plot Summary:
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the 50's. As the second generation become adults in the 60's, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, thought provoking, sad, independent film, serious, captivating, realistic, hispanic, hood, sentimental
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El padrino (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting