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Plot Summary:
A story of a famous actor named Grahme who witnessed a director assault an actress two years ago. Now Grahme is working with Richard (the very same director), on a new film and this time with Malorie, a new leading lady. Grahme's manager Steve can only try to help Grahme along with his crazy behavior, clueless of the assault but caring for his friend. HOLED-UP is centered around essentially, rape. All while during the making of a fictional film.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: dark, independent film, black and white
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Fremont (2023)
Plot Summary:
Each morning Donya leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into a regular slot with a therapist who grasps for prospective role models. When an unexpected promotion at work thrusts Donya into the position to write her own story, she communicates her loneliness and longing through a concise medium: the fortunes inside each cookie. Donya’s koans travel, making a humble social impact and expanding her world far beyond Fremont and her turbulent past, including an encounter with a quiet auto mechanic who could stand to see his own world expanded.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Handcuffs (1970)
Plot Summary:
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Shame (1992)
Plot Summary:
A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Return (1966)
Plot Summary:
An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a young criminal who shares the same nickname replaces him in these actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Wild Seed (1967)
Plot Summary:
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999)
Plot Summary:
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Horoscope (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Screentest Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two naive young women, Sue and Linda, arrive in Hollywood seeking acting jobs and meet Mr. Zoltan, a sleazy producer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Listening to Rain (2012)
Plot Summary:
Listening to Rain is a coming of age story centered around two girls who are sexually assaulted during their senior year of high school. This unique films follows Haley and Emily as they attempt find themselves and recover from unimaginable trauma. Written by Stefanie Walesch and Joshua Good, this film is an insightful look into the adolescence experience of the late 2000's. Listening to Rain provides a window into the minds of scared young women as they try to mend the damage and live on. It is a film about coming of age, coping with trauma and tragedy seen through the lens of those whom are coming of age, overcoming tragedy, and dealing with trauma. Erica Gonzales, Samantha Rakell, and Katie Stewart star in this thought-provoking film directed by Joshua Good and photographed by William Davies Meldon.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Subwave (1995)
Plot Summary:
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Juvenile Delinquents -- New World Order (2020)
Plot Summary:
Broken teens trying to claim something their parents failed to provide - A Future and Purpose.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark
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When He's Not a Stranger (1989)
Plot Summary:
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself on Lyn. When she resists, Ron throws her on the bed and rapes her. Lyn initially tries to forget about it, but when she does decide to pursue a university hearing, the pressure of Melanie, Ron, and the school is brought to bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Case of Rape (1974)
Plot Summary:
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Silent Witness (1985)
Plot Summary:
The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Crime Of Innocence (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Red Light in the White House (1977)
Plot Summary:
A reporter digs into the background of a young woman who is running for the U.S. Senate, and finds out a lot more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love, Mary (1985)
Plot Summary:
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Family Nest (1979)
Plot Summary:
Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event--including one that's relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, black and white
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A Mother's Justice (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Johnny Belinda (1982)
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While attempting to set up a communal garden in the poverty stricken rural community of Hatcher, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a silent, mute, disheveled girl by the name of Belinda. He soon learns that she is considered mentally handicapped by the community, and by her harsh father and aunt, who initially rebuff all attempts at communication and assistance from Bill. He persists in making contact, and discovers that Belinda is actually deaf. He realizes that he can communicate with her using sign language, and teaches her to sign. Gradually, Belinda's world opens up but life is not all smooth sailing, however, as Bill deals with the sneers and jeers of the town's bad boy, Kyle Hager and his group of rowdy friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher
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My Son Is Innocent (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media turn against him. Only through the dogged determination of his mother, and her loyal boyfriend does Eric and the victim have a chance for justice to be served.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Russ Meyer's Lorna (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, grindhouse, black and white, independent film
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The Plutonium Incident (1980)
Plot Summary:
A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Share (2019)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, social, cult classic
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Bad Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: black and white, indie film, sexual, lgbt cinema, thinking, postmodern, independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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Clementine (2019)
Plot Summary:
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, melancholic, contemplative, crying, queer cinema
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Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
Plot Summary:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt that Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, talky, offbeat, spiritual, mind blowing, sincere, clever, touching, serious
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Old Joy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, talky, lyrical, sincere, realistic, touching, serious, independent film, entertaining