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Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The doctor then marries his mistress, whom he had been keeping during his marriage. His former father-in-law, convinced that his daughter was murdered, determines to see the doctor punished.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fools (1970)
Plot Summary:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Between Two Women (1986)
Plot Summary:
When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Lifeguard (1976)
Plot Summary:
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Men Don't Tell (1993)
Plot Summary:
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, sad
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: factual, psychological, touching, talky, stylized
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Travis McGee (1983)
Plot Summary:
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Littlest Victims (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Callie & Son (1981)
Plot Summary:
Callie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Tender Is the Night (1962)
Plot Summary:
Director Henry King's 1962 film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Paul Lukas and Jill St. John.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: retro
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The Meatrack (1970)
Plot Summary:
A hybrid of Warholian midnight movie and Doris Wishman-esque sexploitation picture, Michael Thomas's softcore rarity Meatrack was originally produced and released by Sherpix, the company that brought underground films like Lonesome Cowboys, Pink Narcissus, and Invocation of My Demon Brother to a nationwide circuit of art house theatres. The film concerns an ostensibly straight married man who starts turning tricks on the sleazy streets of San Francisco, and it was shot almost entirely on location in the city’s by-the-hour hotels, adult theatres, gay bars, and bathhouses. With real-life go-go boys, female impersonators, and leathermen as its supporting cast, it serves as a rich subcultural document.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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Ice Bound (2003)
Plot Summary:
It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dramatic, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Why me? (1984)
Plot Summary:
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993)
Plot Summary:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Hammer (2017)
Plot Summary:
When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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A Death in California (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her which leads to a bizarre trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Plot Summary:
The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spooky, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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November Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, serious, disturbing, sad, realistic
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Someone I Touched (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Jewel (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, rough, ridiculous
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Plot Summary:
"Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite what many thought to be overwhelming evidence of guilt. The movie is seen from Ashton’s (Lowe) perspective and it takes viewers behind-the-scenes of both the investigation into Caylee’s tragic death and the ensuing trial, shedding new light on the many questions of what happened to the two year-old girl, how Ashton and his fellow prosecutors built their case and why a woman so shrouded in suspicion was proclaimed innocent. With in-depth information about the case and the accused, "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" examines what the prosecution got right, what they got wrong and why Ashton remains convinced of Casey Anthony’s guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, detective, bleak, gloomy
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Three Christs (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, disturbing, sincere
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Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
Plot Summary:
A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, sexual, sexy