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Plot Summary:
Tells the stories of a group of people in Ciudad de Juarez with one thing in common: they are all looking for a better life for them and their families. For many, that better life waits just a short walk away in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, contemplative
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The Blue Hour (2007)
Plot Summary:
Several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each others in small but sometimes profound ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, touching, suspenseful, crying, independent film, hispanic
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Diamonds (2009)
Plot Summary:
Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada, UK
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
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Close-Up (2011)
Plot Summary:
"CLOSE-UP" is a dramatic feature film told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; his wife and child, his job, and his pride, before it's too late. Over the course of one day on New Years Eve in New York City, a young vibrant woman, Freebird, shows him how to stand up, discover himself and move on with his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Reg (2016)
Plot Summary:
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, touching
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Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, tense, sincere, suspenseful, crying
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Hollow (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the outskirts of the city, where crime is a way of life, the paths of four desperate people collide. Jordan Coleman, a local drug dealer, finds himself at a crossroads when his friend and mentor gets in too deep with a ruthless gangster and club owner. Chelsea Hammond, an exotic dancer, finds herself being pushed into the dark world of adult entertainment as she fights to regain control of her life. Narcotics detective Sam Riley struggles with an online addiction he has tried to keep hidden from his wife. Reformed street thug Harrison Green goes back to his old neighborhood to try and connect with a street brother he left behind. These four will face their ultimate test at the hands of Copernicus Jones, a ruthless gangster who will let nothing stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, christian film, controversial
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Icebox (2018)
Plot Summary:
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, ambiguous ending, touching, suspenseful, political
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On the Line (1984)
Plot Summary:
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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14 Kilometers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational, road movie
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At Any Cost (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers and their best friend start a rock band and try to make it big in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Three Days of Rain (2002)
Plot Summary:
Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, independent film
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La Migra (2015)
Plot Summary:
La Migra is a 'Romeo and Juliet' story set in the border crossing town of Imperial Beach, California - US Border Patrol Agent Diego Chavez (Michael Copon) works closely with his Uncle Manny Chavez (Marco Rodríguez) the Port Director for the San Ysidro Port of Entry, and the two have a close relationship, both professionally and personally. Currently dating San Diego Police Detective Tracy Jensen (Nikki SooHoo) ... Diego unexpectedly falls hard for Natalie Martinez (Antoinette Kalaj), his childhood sweetheart who lived next door to him. Natalie has now grownup into a beautiful woman who makes a great living as a model. However, as the CBP and Border Patrol join forces with ICE and DEA to investigate a new cartel that's popped up, Diego becomes uneasily aware that Natalie might be much more than she says.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, hispanic
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The Good Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pappu is a truck driver. Supporting his parents and extended family is beyond his means. Now, he has been presented a plan. An accident will be staged. Pappu will "die". Insurance payments are substantial.David and Kiran, a middle class urban couple, with their son Aditya, are on a holiday. Aditya will be accidentally separated from them during a brief halt at a Dhaba. And his loss will only be discovered several hours, and several hundred kilometers later. They must double back to find him. Poonam is an 11-year old-year-old child from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, road movie, gujarati
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Blast Beat (2020)
Plot Summary:
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Born Wild (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison for the murder of a fellow biker; CJ returns to his hometown to confront his former gang. However; he arrives to find that the past is not forgotten easily; and now they are out for blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Border (1982)
Plot Summary:
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: talky, neo noir, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro, crime drama, cult classic
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American Son (2019)
Plot Summary:
Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, heartbreaking, suspense, suspenseful, rough, sad, disturbing
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Northless (2009)
Plot Summary:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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I Carry You with Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Ranchlands (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of a spiritually scarred man whose life changes forever when he must return to his estranged family to help care for a brother who is suffering from brain cancer. With the help of a spiritually enlightened caregiver, he faces the demons of the past and a secret that has haunted him and his family for many years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Looking for Her (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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The Golden Dream (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, rough, touching, serious, hispanic, bleak, realistic
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Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luz Cuevas baby daughter Delimar disappeared in 1997 after their house caught fire during a party, The police reported that she was killed in the fire. However, Cuevas suspects that she was kidnapped and that the fire was staged by an outsider. Six years after the fire, Cuevas meets Valerie Valleja former wife of one of Pedro's cousins, who was also at the party. She has a six-year-old girl with her, named Aaliyah. The girl bears a resemblance to Cuevas and she suspects it is Delimar. Cuevas begins an investigation….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hispanic
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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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Betrayed at 17 (2011)
Plot Summary:
A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, emotional, realistic, sad
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All Saints (2017)
Plot Summary:
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: christian film, touching, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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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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The United States of Leland (2003)
Plot Summary:
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: depressing, meditative, psychological, bleak, emotional, rough, serious, realistic, touching, melancholic
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Babel (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 314000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: emotional, atmospheric, non-linear, sincere, bleak, depressing, art house, touching, breathtaking, melancholic