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Plot Summary:
A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His biological father, meanwhile, resides in a psychiatric care unit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Strings of Passion (2014)
Plot Summary:
Strings Of Passion is an urban commercial flick which tells the story of three men, Neel, Aman and Amit. They are young and dynamic guys who run the band "Strings of Passion" but are shadowed by the influence of drugs, broken love and bad parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Potential Inertia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very difficult time, and the relationships that can either build you up or tear you apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Professor Mack (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a confident college professor is courted by four eligible and well-established men, she struggles to decide who she likes the best.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
Plot Summary:
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, sleaze, and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, ridiculous
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Lip Service (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two very different former college roomates reunite under strange circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Deceitful Storm (2008)
Plot Summary:
When businessman David Morgan (Stefan Sims) embarks on an adulterous affair, his wife, Rena (Karyn Lewis), must decide whether his infidelity is the last straw in a relationship marred by years of neglect and emotional abuse. If she tries to mend the marriage, can her husband take responsibility for his actions and change his ways? Eric Harvey and Felicia Kerney also star in this potent urban drama directed by Shanda Davis.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Publication (1988)
Plot Summary:
class conflicts in a school class.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Fraternity Row (1977)
Plot Summary:
Director Thomas J. Tobin's 1977 drama about college freshmen subjected to fraternity hazing stars Gregory Harrison, Peter Fox, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan and Wendy Phillips.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Nunzio (1978)
Plot Summary:
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Way Off Broadway (2001)
Plot Summary:
Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Purple Haze (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's dynamite stuff.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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R.P.M. (1970)
Plot Summary:
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political
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Where It's At (1969)
Plot Summary:
A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts to understand one another.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Analog Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles, not quite the middle of nowhere, but not exactly a real city either. It's somewhere in between. A place where the youth work at Video Depot, go to community college, struggle with jocks and townies, and all do their best to understand politics, their careers, their love life and self-image. It's here that Jordan, Molly, Tammy, and Lloyd are about to understand that in life you don't always get what you want. Sometimes you're stuck never leaving home, never fitting in, or never really knowing who your friends are. This is their transition toward growing up and realizing that real life doesn't always end up like a movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Grown Ups (2016)
Plot Summary:
The 9th grade students of a little suburban school are back to school. For MJ, Hugo and Avril, it's the year to make difficult choices. They're in 9th grade, they're officially the big kids in school, the bosses. Seduce? Be the boss? Only Boogie seems convinced. Our teens hardly seem like a group of winners, more like losers. Nevertheless, this school year promises to be just like all the others, not great, a bit tense. Unless.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration:
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September 30, 1955 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a young man who idolized the rising star. Racked with grief, Jimmy holds a vigil that quickly devolves into a drunken spectacle with its own catastrophic consequences. Dennis Quaid also stars in "September 30, 1955": a day that forever changed the lives of many.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Life 101 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman Ramsy, played by Corey Haim experiences love for the first time in the 1960s when he asks out Joy, played by Ami Dolenz. An education of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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When He's Not a Stranger (1989)
Plot Summary:
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, Melanie is not there. Ron forces himself on Lyn. When she resists, Ron throws her on the bed and rapes her. Lyn initially tries to forget about it, but when she does decide to pursue a university hearing, the pressure of Melanie, Ron, and the school is brought to bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rose Earl is proud as a peacock when Bobby, her eldest, whom she raised, like his kid brother Michael, to become moral men an model citizens, is the first member of the modest family ever to get accepted at college. It will take a while till she starts getting aware of it, but after he joins a respectable fraternity Bobby becomes ever more influenced by his roomy, the ambitious Tom Stahl, who promises him the world as they form an unbeatable team.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Silencing Mary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Dying to Belong (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a girls friend is killed by a college hazing, she is the only one who can find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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B-Boy Blues (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Class of '44 (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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End Of The Harvest (1998)
Plot Summary:
An atheist philosophy club at a college harasses a Christian, Scott, who claims to have inside knowledge of when the world will end. To vindicate himself and "defeat" the athiests, he prepares a presentation based on a bible study he finds in the library. Although initially confident, Scott begins to have doubts due to the theoretical nature of the study. Meanwhile, his buddy Matt (who is having prophetic dreams of his own) is frustrated because he feels Scott is uprepared for the presentation and that the responsibility will fall on him to bail his friend out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Harrad Summer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, controversial, sexual, sexy
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Bloodbrothers (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, talky, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, clever, contemplative
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Mentor (2006)
Plot Summary:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional, independent film, sexual, sexy
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All In (2006)
Plot Summary:
Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, tense, serious
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Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, contemplative
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Cheaters (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, serious, realistic, offbeat