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Plot Summary:
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational story told from a Christian perspective about complex characters who resist embracing God's plans for them because they're too wrapped up in what society wants them to be.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Johnny Tiger (1966)
Plot Summary:
Teacher George Dean (Robert Taylor) packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a Seminole reservation in Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Lady from Yesterday (1985)
Plot Summary:
A man (Rogers) with a wife (Bedelia) and two daughters and a flourishing career is visited by a woman (Chen) whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam. Who reveals to him that they have a son and that she wants him to take him (their son).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Wild Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ned Giles, an aspiring news photographer, joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on the search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican land owner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. Ned finds himself on an unexpected and perilous journey through rugged terrain, when a captured wild Apache girl must be exchanged for the kidnapped boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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In Search Of America (1971)
Plot Summary:
The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy's suggestion, Betz and Miles pack their family--including grandma Ruth McDevitt--into a 1928 Greyhound bus and hit the road, in search of you-know-where. The picaresque plotline brings the family in contact with a variety of colorful characters. Written by Lewis John Carlino, a name that would mean a lot more to filmgoers after The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Where I Begin (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a tragic event, Jacob decides to return home to his small southern roots, only to find that the past is not really the past and that people may change but they never forget. Can you ever really go home?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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North Star (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Hail, Hero! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war, but this doesn't stop him from endlessly spouting the sort of agit-prop rhetoric so beloved of filmmakers of the era. In addition to Michael Douglas, co-star Peter Strauss likewise makes his first film appearance in Hail, Hero! Dated in the extreme, the film is saved by the musical score by Gordon Lightfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Casey's Gift: For Love of a Child (1990)
Plot Summary:
The friendships held between two families is threatened when one of their sons drowns in the other family's swimming pool.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Dark Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Desert Rats (1988)
Plot Summary:
Series pilot about a local rebel who is appointed sheriff of a small Arizona town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Solitude (2002)
Plot Summary:
Each character involved in this psychological exploration of family and sexuality discovers what it means to suffer inexplicable torment rather than be alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: avant garde, 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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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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Montana Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows two estranged siblings as they return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, neo western
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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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A Question of Love (1978)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Our Son (2023)
Plot Summary:
When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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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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Christmas Eve (1986)
Plot Summary:
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, realistic
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Fly with the Crane (2012)
Plot Summary:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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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
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Juanita (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sincere
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A Very Serious Person (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, thought provoking, social, contemplative, gloomy, independent film