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Plot Summary:
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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Universal Signs (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Tin Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Light of the Moon (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a New York City woman is sexually assaulted while walking home one evening, she struggles to accept the truth and rediscover the intimacy within her relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sad
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Saatchya Aat Gharat (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of young boys and girls grapple with moral issues in a changing world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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A Scream from Silence (1979)
Plot Summary:
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had happened to them to speak out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 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
Plot tags:
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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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Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon (1981)
Plot Summary:
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata (Yuki Kazamatsuri), receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko (Ayako Ôta) is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film, pink cinema
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Papa's Angels (2000)
Plot Summary:
Arkansas furniture maker Grins Jenkins is a cheerful man and loving father to his five kids, as well as the life of every party in their small town. When his wife Sharon, who used to be the 'bad cop', slowly dies of TBC, so does Grins' sense of fun. The kids refuse to keep mourning forever, but dad practically retires from the world and turns his back, opposing them enjoying life again. Then Christmastide arrives, and son Alvin refuses to let his kid brother's dream be spoiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Something Wild (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: social, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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La diosa del puerto (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sin & Redemption (1994)
Plot Summary:
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her college expectations, but it also outrages her smugly religious father who pressures her to give up the baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997)
Plot Summary:
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped appear to be raped by a rapist who has raped them earlier and who was not caught. Detective Eileen Burke, who is working together with detectives Carella, Meyer and Brown, goes undercover and pretends to be one of the women who was raped earlier in order to lure out the rapist. Her boyfriend, Det. Kling, is not happy with her assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective
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Without Her Consent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Female Teacher : Twice Raped (1983)
Plot Summary:
Science Teacher at high school science, Kojima Miho is a popular among male students this worked bad for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, experimental
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Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)
Plot Summary:
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, ambiguous ending, entertaining
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
Plot Summary:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, talky
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...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)
Plot Summary:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, realistic, sexual, detective, sexy
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I Know What You Did (1998)
Plot Summary:
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Family Rescue (1996)
Plot Summary:
The court has given custody of Emma Hayes' child to the baby's father, a man who raped Emma when she was only fifteen years old. It's up to the baby's grandfather, Clayton Hayes to prevent the child from being handed over until Emma can convince the court to reverse the order.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Last Summer (1969)
Plot Summary:
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky, independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic
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Jaded (1998)
Plot Summary:
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric, realistic
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Plot Summary:
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, thought provoking, gothic, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy