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Plot Summary:
A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell a dead-man's stash of drugs. The corpse's cousin smells a rat. Jessica, who is babysitting, abandons her charge to seek someone to defend her from a boyfriend angry that he's caught an STD. Corey is responsible for his teen sister, and he and his pal Pedro have been evicted, so they plot to steal a car, sell it, and get back in their apartment. Heather, an EMT, thinks her cop boyfriend is cheating, and she confides in her best friend. There's a party that night where all comes to a head.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, crying
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A Boy Called Hate (1995)
Plot Summary:
After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Jimmy Zip (1999)
Plot Summary:
An abused runaway with pyromaniac tendencies teams up with a metal sculptor. Together they blow away the art world and a local crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, grunge
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Walking Across Egypt (1999)
Plot Summary:
The film follows the life of Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), an elderly woman who believes in strong religious convictions. The film explores the lonely qualities of life for senior citizens after their children leave as adults. Judge Reinhold and Gail O'Grady play Mattie's children who live in a deep southern town. Mattie soon finds a likable friend in the local dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill). It is through this relationship in which she meets the dogcatcher's nephew, a troubled, foul-mouthed, orphaned juvenile delinquent, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), currently serving time in juvenile detention for a recent car theft. Mattie finds that this young man is just missing direction and believes that with a little insight on Christianity he can straighten up and fly right.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, biblical, tear jerker, serious, realistic, crying
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Speedway Junky (1999)
Plot Summary:
A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be then gets a lesson in the wild side, getting involved in one situation after another. Patsy Kensit makes a cameo as another hustler and Daryl Hannah appears as the scam artist's surrogate mom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good, light, independent film, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Plot Summary:
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: social, hispanic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zappa (1983)
Plot Summary:
Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. All three seem friends at first, but gradually Steen starts pushing Mulle away while pulling the impressionable Bjørn with him towards more and more violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, crying
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Yellow (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he loses a large sum of his dad's money. The friends rally together to attempt to raise the money back in one evening in a wild and desperate scavenger hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, crying
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Black Circle Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, lovecraft, independent film, realistic
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Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, touching, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Hurricane Streets (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, clever, bad ending, sad, harsh
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Kicked in the Head (1997)
Plot Summary:
Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch wants Redmond to take part in his illegal beer business, but before Redmond gets involved, the business ends in a bad way. Redmond is also having affair with flight attendant Megan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, crying, funny, light, clever, brutal
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, independent film, clever
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Slingshot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, exciting, light, captivating
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Crutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, light, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark, clever, road movie
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Joe the King (1999)
Plot Summary:
A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim, realistic, art house, semi autobiographical, serious, gloomy
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, inspirational, retro, sad, art house, cerebral, cult classic, visually stunning, erotic drama
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River's Edge (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, dark, grim, creepy, cult classic, controversial, psychological, bleak, retro
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Mean Creek (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense, independent film, captivating, emotional, sad, tense
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Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Plot Summary:
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, inspirational, suspense
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Kidulthood (2006)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen, emotional, cult classic, bleak, captivating, realistic
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Strays (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon finds that his volatile behaviour threatens to finish their relationship before it even really begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
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Tart (2001)
Plot Summary:
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, melancholic, tense, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Jamesy Boy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, crying
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Reach the Rock (1998)
Plot Summary:
A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, tense, independent film, biting
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Intermission (2003)
Plot Summary:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, touching, melancholic, witty, black comedy, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense
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Nearing Grace (2005)
Plot Summary:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Outside Providence (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law convinces his blue-collar dad to send him to a Connecticut prep school. The one saving grace of the new school is Jane, a fellow student Tim falls for immediately.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, intense, semi serious, touching, independent film, epic, sentimental, realistic
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The Wackness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, funny, light, psychedelic, feel good