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Plot Summary:
A drama that follows three adults during a single day in Los Angeles, one filled with sex, drugs, and indecision.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, captivating, suspense, contemplative, talky, inspirational
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Sunlight Jr. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, christian film, aesthetic, bleak
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The Casino Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around his mansion and lagoon pool.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Some Velvet Morning (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, cynical, captivating, suspense, christian film, sex comedy, mystic, cerebral
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Party Talk (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four creative and sexually confused high school seniors are forced to deal with their sense of isolation while attending a booze-soaked party in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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With These Hands (1971)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Emmanuelle in Hong Kong (2003)
Plot Summary:
Yan and Emily have been married for two years. Since Emily is cultivated in a catholic way and considers sex to be a sin, their sex life is always miserable. To save their marriage, Yan hires a nobleman, K, to give Emily a lesson in sex. Yan cooks up a scheme to kidnap his wife and lock her up in a castle for three months for the tutorial. After the training, her attitude towards sex has been changed, but Yan is still unable to please his wife...Yan and Emily have been married for two years. Since Emily is cultivated in a catholic way and considers sex to be a sin, their sex life is always miserable. To save their marriage, Yan hires a nobleman, K, to give Emily a lesson in sex. Yan cooks up a scheme to kidnap his wife and lock her up in a castle for three months for the tutorial. After the training, her attitude towards sex has been changed, but Yan is still unable to please his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Wife Swappers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Six stories involving wife and husband swapping/swinging, are described in titillating detail while analyzed by a pseudo psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, anthology, grindhouse, sensual, erotic, independent film
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Hooking Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
After "hooking up" with a series of guys at a house party, April is the talk of her high school.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, touching, melancholic, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Country Hooker (1974)
Plot Summary:
A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop. Eventually, they make it to the bar and uncover that the deep voiced country singer that also plays there is also a pimp who uses the "waitresses" to make him some extra cash. It is up to our musician heroes to put an end to the singer and his operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The New Twenty (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sexy, captivating, talky, sexual
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social, tense, period piece, serious, emotional, realistic
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Choking Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious, gloomy
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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Plot Summary:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and the desire to explore.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy, independent film
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The Whore's Son (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, stylized, erotic, realistic, gloomy
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Paraiso Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. Marlon's journey, which takes him through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, ultimately takes him to a place he could have not predicted.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, gloomy
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Happiness Runs (2010)
Plot Summary:
The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he"s smart enough to know that if he is going to survive, he has to get out.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, cerebral, atmospheric
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About Cherry (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, serious, realistic, depressing, grindhouse, teen, erotic drama, profound, bleak
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The Pornographer (1999)
Plot Summary:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, psychological, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, independent film
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25th Hour (2002)
Plot Summary:
The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are themes on this last day of friends, family, parties, saying goodbye, and setting things straight. A Spike Lee joint.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 183000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: depressing, psychological, emotional, bleak, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, contemplative, neo noir
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Josie's Castle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Three free spirits cut their ties with the old-fashioned square world and shack up in a love commune. A Seventies cult favorite featuring Star Trek's George Takei (Mr. Sulu).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Best Friends (1975)
Plot Summary:
Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Anthem (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young writer and his attractive wife looking to climb the social ladder move to an affluent area outside of Scottsdale AZ. Little do they know... Once you say yes... it's hard to say no.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Erotic Diary of Misty Mundae (2004)
Plot Summary:
College Coed Misty Mundae can no longer contain her surging sexual desires, and it transforms her secret diary into an ultra-erotic journal of her most intimate thoughts. With each new entry, Misty feverishly conjures up female lovers to indulge every insatiable urge and mouth-watering pleasure that her eager mouth craves and her hot young body demands. Fantasy is made flesh as Misty is seduced by her wildest lesbian creations (Darian Caine, Anoushka, AJ Khan, Julian Wells and Ruby LaRocca) who take her to heights of ecstasy never before experienced. It's 100% naughty as Misty's uninhibited lust and hunger for satisfaction at any cost set the screen on fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Adrift in Manhattan (2007)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Quiet City (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric, sincere, serious, avant garde
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Little Birds (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, independent film, teen, depressing, artsy, indie film, aesthetic
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My Normal (2009)
Plot Summary:
"My Normal" is the story of Natalie, a young lesbian from the Lower East Side, who's struggling to find a balance between her dreams of becoming a film maker and her lifestyle as a dominatrix. Her exotic looks and unconventional techniques make her one of the most desirable mistresses in the NYC underground. After befriending her weed dealer and igniting a steamy love affair with her new girl, Natalie gets an internship on a real movie set. But if everything she ever wanted is becoming a reality, why is her life falling apart? When it seems that all is lost, Natalie realizes that the only way to turn her dreams into reality is to use her unique talents as a dominatrix to get exactly what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, humorous, talky, independent film, sexual, queer cinema
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Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, independent film
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Slovenian Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental, sexual, transgressive, sincere, thought provoking, serious
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Body Shots (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them is forced to take sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, intense, psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual