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Plot Summary:
Scott, John and Suzie quit their boring jobs and depart L.A. for Alaska to pursue their dream of their own salmon fishing business. They soon find that life in Alaska is more difficult than expected as they are forced to abandon their plans and make desperate choices just to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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Alligator Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
Three young New York men decide to travel South for a few days away from the Big Apple. They pick up a beautiful, mysterious young sight less woman with a strange and unsettling past. All three are captivated and fascinated by her, but can she be trusted?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
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Made in U.S.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, semi serious, road movie
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High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Sinful Davey (1969)
Plot Summary:
Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012)
Plot Summary:
A powerful Chilean gangster uses everything in his power to stop the woman that wants to kill him, a sexy mercenary known as "the machine gun woman". The staggering sum of cash he offers for her head sets in motion an army of hitmen. And also, by accident, bursts in the life of naïve DJ Santiago, a common youth that will have to steel his guts against the underworld, and above all, survive the irresistible - and bloodthirsty - Machine Gun Woman. - Written by FICV.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, grindhouse, action packed, mockbuster, mindfuck
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Wild Horses (1995)
Plot Summary:
Still Breathing and theft in a financial, Joseph (Hector Alterio), an old anarchist, and a young employee, Pedro (Leonardo Sbaraglia) live for four days violent and compassionate alternatives in their desperate flight from the Patagonia Argentina. Along the way they encounter Ana (Cecilia Dopazo), a teenager who accompanies them on the trip.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, twisted, humorous, realistic, semi serious, wild
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Plot Summary:
Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, grindhouse, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Plot Summary:
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, light, clever, enigmatic
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Crazy Mama (1975)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, independent film, humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, road movie, psychotronic, cult film
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Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
Plot Summary:
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Thief (1971)
Plot Summary:
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Plot Summary:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Graduation (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don't go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one day than they ever did in school.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Little Laura and Big John (1973)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, cult film
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The Heist (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Neal Skinner (Pierce Brosnan) seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens (Tom Skerritt) for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, surprise ending, detective, eighties
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The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
Plot Summary:
A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, psychotronic, independent film
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The Squeeze (1978)
Plot Summary:
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, cult film
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Hazard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, neo noir, poliziottesco
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Plot Summary:
Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: talky, intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, road movie, neo noir, psychological, realistic
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Black Day Blue Night (1995)
Plot Summary:
A wife's husband is cheating on her. She decides to go on a road trip with her husband's other woman. While driving the two women pick up a hitchhiker. The man they pick up may be a robber and murderer on the run from the cops. A policeman who is tracking the hitchhiker has a close eye on them, but the question is why?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie
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Decisions (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want the money back and will go to any lengths to get it! Things go wrong quickly as bullets start to fly and the group finds that one thing affects another and discover that the voice of reason is not always what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, independent film, rough, realistic
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, spiritual, crime drama, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Bank Roll (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked away over the years, The BBT hatches a plan to help out this older brother escape the repercussions of his fate by complicating his own with the assistance of five close friends -- ERIK, DEREK, JAMIE, K.C. and KYLE. The gang have only four days to create a 'red herring' that will throw off the officials and clear The BBT's brother's name by actually robbing a small bank. If all goes to plan, this is enough 'reasonable doubt' in the brother's case to clear his name. The BBT figures to exactly recreate his brother's crime and arm himself with only a few folders of photographs which contain the bank tellers' friends, families, pets, places of residence and ... Written by Doug Maguire.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Plot Summary:
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. The cross-country journey begins when the 2 boys think they killed a drunk and steal his car en route to Canada where they encounter The Liberty Maid. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, exciting, light, melancholic, suspenseful, tense, road movie
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More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Flashback (1990)
Plot Summary:
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, emotional, humorous, witty, realistic, road movie, uplifting, action comedy, cult classic
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Going in Style (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, realistic, entertaining, semi serious, black comedy, clever, tense, sentimental
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Little Cigars (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Sweet Little Lies (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, humorous, road movie, light, feel good, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious