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Plot Summary:
A contemporary noir set entirely at night Nightbeats is an homage to the classic noirs of the 1940's, though told as a contemporary drama, not a gumshoe satire, Nightbeats follow the lives of five people over four nights. Over these nights there are a series of deaths, suicides at first glance. Or are they?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Manila by Night (1980)
Plot Summary:
The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families conflict with each other as they live on the streets, which are rampant with drugs and prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tagalog, queer cinema
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On the Block (1990)
Plot Summary:
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland. -- KillerMovies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Queen of the Blues (1979)
Plot Summary:
A seedy striptease club in London's West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Melissa (1995)
Plot Summary:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Szerencse lányai (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Desperate Lives (1982)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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White Hot (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Street Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Angel has become a dancer in a topless bar, and her dealer boyfriend is turning her on to heroin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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South West 9 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Animals (2014)
Plot Summary:
ANIMALS tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation when one of them gets hospitalized.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: indie film
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Toughlove (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Her Last Chance (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Connection (1961)
Plot Summary:
Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment belonging to Leach. Jim Dunn, a budding filmmaker, has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film the connection scene. After the men get their shots, they talk Dunn into trying heroin in order to understand the subject "first hand." He becomes ill and while sleeping, Leach takes an overdose that puts him into a coma. Dunn recovers, with the aid of the connection, and writes off the film as a failure.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, underground film, social, independent film, avant garde, experimental, fake documentary
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Molly & Gina (1994)
Plot Summary:
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Angels with Dirty Wings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three women - no moral. Morality is the excuse for those who don't dare to live their truth.Michaela, Gabriela and Lucy are angels of vice. On their motorbikes they ride through the countryside to live their pleasure. They could see a lot, but only see themselves. They call themselves angels but they are angels with dirty wings. To be a full member in the exile paradise of angels, Lucy has to prove herself and stand the tests. The new film of Roland Reber and Mira Gittner is an anthem of immorality. A holy song of egoism and a painful study about our time and a generation who rent their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ned Rifle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, semi serious, captivating, erotic, offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, independent film, saga
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Endings (2010)
Plot Summary:
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced breast cancer, has made a similar decision about the end of her life. They are all strangers to each other, but as Emmy embarks on a strange journey, and as the day's events bring these three dying people together, through Emmy's unique point of view, their lives are changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Satan Was A Lady (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, sexy, captivating, suspense
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Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? (1993)
Plot Summary:
After a young prostitute is murdered and left in a rubbish heap, her mother does everything to track down the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sad
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On the Corner (2003)
Plot Summary:
Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and fuelled by drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Not My Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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6 Balloons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two year old daughter in tow.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, melancholic, sentimental, rough, captivating
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Ben Is Back (2018)
Plot Summary:
19 year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, social, rough, suspense, suspenseful, inspirational, spiritual, serious, entertaining, non fiction
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Country Hooker (1974)
Plot Summary:
A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop. Eventually, they make it to the bar and uncover that the deep voiced country singer that also plays there is also a pimp who uses the "waitresses" to make him some extra cash. It is up to our musician heroes to put an end to the singer and his operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Courage (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mother in Queens, New York, is so angered when she discovers that her son is a drug addict that she becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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Cocaine Angel (2006)
Plot Summary:
A week in the life of a young drug addict.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore, independent film, sincere, witty, gloomy
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Lap Dancing (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angie is having no luck auditioning for movies. She thinks about going back home, but her roommate Claudia convinces her to try working at the "gentleman's club" with her in order to gain more life experience. Angie hopes to be able to turn the experience toward more effective acting but is having difficulty overcoming her inhibitions. She meets a burned out movie director at the club who helps her with her dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Sherrybaby (2006)
Plot Summary:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, emotional, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual, cult classic, realistic, scary, political
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Electra (1990)
Plot Summary:
Born with the beauty of the gods, Electra's lust for sexual gratification is exceeded only by her lust for vengeance. Enter a world of forbidden family love, betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Plot Summary:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: depressing, disturbing, bleak, rough, serious, controversial, grim, cult classic, realistic, dark