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Plot Summary:
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any more at home there than in the white city. He decides to go back to find and punish the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010)
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After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: detective
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Hunting of Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
A universal story with Latino characters told in an unconventional way (like Forrest Gump and Amadeus) about a man who's trying to keep his hot-headed younger brother from carrying out revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, detective, hispanic
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Rosario (1971)
Plot Summary:
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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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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Xian's Finest (2000)
Plot Summary:
Wu, a veteran police officer in Xian, is demoted to work in a community policing center after he accidentally injures a hostage during a rescue mission. At first the new job appears to be simple and straightforward, but Wu and his family gradually get engulfed in a web of mistrust, jealousy, accusations, and even worse things.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
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Johnny Greyeyes (2000)
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Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Wild Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ned Giles, an aspiring news photographer, joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on the search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican land owner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. Ned finds himself on an unexpected and perilous journey through rugged terrain, when a captured wild Apache girl must be exchanged for the kidnapped boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Stranger in Town (1998)
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A 13-year-old boy, whose single mother moved her family from the big city to a small town, begins to suspect that a stranger who befriends his family is not who he initially appears to be. Harry Hamlin, Graham Green, Rebecca Jenkins and Trevor Blumas star.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978)
Plot Summary:
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Lovers of Devil's Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Long Live the Bride (2015)
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In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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Princesses (2000)
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Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a criminal origin. Her husband Simon thought they were his and murdered her. Then he set out his hunt for the diamonds and for killing Johan. The police thought that Johan had murdered Loïc and called his daughters, who had not known about each other. Afterwards Sophie receives a note to take a certain train to Amsterdam. A young boy gives Virginie the oral message "The treasure is in the trout". She immediately understands that this trout must be in her mother's freezer, unknown to the mother. Both girls take the train. Simon contacts them as a helpful fellow-passenger. The girls soon detect his aim of murdering them. In Brussels they escape the train. Virginie steals a car but is not as good at driving as at stealing (she will prove this again).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Killing Yard (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Looking for Angelina (2005)
Plot Summary:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
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Tientsin Mystic 2 (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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A Clear View the Mark Barmore Story (2015)
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In Rockford, IL and other cities around the nation deal with their share of police killing people, by accident, in defense or sometimes just in cold blood. This is a true story about Mark Barmore a young who became a victim of Rockford Police department. This is a story of a young man just beginning his raise to fame when he was tragically killed by these to officers. When this unfolded everyone who seen, either didn't want to see more, couldn't see more or just won't tell. But every body's view of the shooting brings this gritty, thriller to life as we uncover the truth. The same truth Rev. Jesse Jackson rallied for, from the streets of Rockford all the way to the white house. This is a emotional heart stopping film straight from the national headlines.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Elijah (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Elijah Harper.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Fish Hawk (1979)
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A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Mourning for Anna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min
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Naturally Native (1998)
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Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity issues and each has chosen a very different career path. Now dedicated to starting a Native cosmetic business, they attempt to overcome obstacles both in the business world and in the home. A touching love story of family and culture, Naturally Native also interweaves a subtle, but strong wake-up call regarding the treatment of Native people in corporate America. Naturally Native also provides some insight into tribal infrastructure and gaming issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Word of Honor (2003)
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Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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Black and White (2002)
Plot Summary:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic
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A Kiss and a Promise (2011)
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In a quiet Ontario town, a small Bed and Breakfast dwells with a perverse secret. David Beck, a closet sociopath, but seemingly normal man, runs the B & B with his wife Samantha, a fiery woman with masochistic tendencies. The harmony of the house is disrupted when a young girl's body is found on the edge of town and veteran police Detective Anthony Dolan suspects David of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, detective, tense, gloomy, weird
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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
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"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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One Angry Juror (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, tense, independent film