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Plot Summary:
Homer Grindstaff is a big named banker in Glory and Doc Council is a prison official and they team up to plot to kill Appleyard and his ex-convict friends who were attempting to open up a general store in Stone Coal, West Virginia and then to take the money.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: period piece, serious, realistic, period drama, cult film
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Joyride (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three excitement-craving friends get more than they bargained for when they steal a hit woman's automobile.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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End of the Line (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, witty
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Salvation Boulevard (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Betrayal (1974)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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All Mistakes Buried (2015)
Plot Summary:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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Coastlines (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Runaway (2005)
Plot Summary:
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Mr. Kaplan (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
A guy looking to find employment and marry the love of his life, gets in over his head when a fast-talking temp agent lands him a job.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, soap opera
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Sous X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to resume his activities ... It may be for Jean-Jacques the time to ask the right questions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Absolute Killers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Toxic (2008)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, fast
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Saving Grace B. Jones (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Blackhats (2015)
Plot Summary:
"blackhats" is about a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter, whom, finds his new harmonious life as a Fugitive Recovery Agent threatened, when he must track down a group of cyber hackers before they are assassinated by a rival bounty hunter while also trying to prevent a massive viral attack that could collapse America’s economic foundation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Doc West - Part 1 (2009)
Plot Summary:
After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker game gone bad Doc West finds himself in the local town jail. When his past is exposed and a battle amongst the town breaks out in gunfire he will have to choose sides, between the outlaws or the law-abiding citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, captivating, sexy, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The World Made Straight (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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PVC-1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, realistic, tense, bleak, serious, tragic ending
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Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
Plot Summary:
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Living in Peril (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to the apartment-block where he has rented a flat he meets the choleric landlord William and the others living there. But now the problems starts. The next morning somebody has ruined his drawing and Harrison dislikes what Walter has drawn. But soon everything gets out of hand. Walter gets into more trouble - one morning he finds rats all over his apartment and the next day he finds his beautiful neighbor killed in his bed - and he starts to think that it is the fired truck driver who is out to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hunter (1980)
Plot Summary:
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, black comedy, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, freeze frame, dark comedy
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A Show of Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Domino Killings (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in prison for murder, he has hit rock-bottom. But one day a man in a three-piece suit visits him in prison, a man he has never seen before, and informs him that he can walk out of prison a free man if he will shoot someone for them, no questions asked.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
Plot Summary:
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Country Remedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of the small community he is forced to deal with the recent loss of his wife while reconnecting with his 9 year old son, and learning a different pace of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic
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Wrong Is Right (1982)
Plot Summary:
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hal on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: political, black comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, fast, political comedy
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Bandolero! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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Soda Springs (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Housekeeping (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sad, atmospheric, realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light