Best movies like September 30, 1955
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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
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The Oscar (1966)
Plot Summary:
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for Best actor at the Academy Awards.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, detective, campy, cult film
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Scandal Sheet (1985)
Plot Summary:
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: eighties
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35 Days: A Post-Production Odyssey (2016)
Plot Summary:
Indie-film director Eric Cutter's attempt to complete his long-abandoned third feature film, "Gunman," in time for a local film festival.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Strings of Passion (2014)
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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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The Magic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Tunisia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Algeria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Venice/Venice (1992)
Plot Summary:
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, romantic, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, heartbreaking, melancholic
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Papa (2018)
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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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
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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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Waiting for the Light to Change (2022)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a week-long beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Our Time (1974)
Plot Summary:
Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: heartfelt
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags:
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Plot Summary:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic, campy
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Suburban Roulette (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sexy Sixties Swingers invite tragedy in the simmering suburban cauldron of Chaicago's fringe.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scent of Gardenias (1992)
Plot Summary:
Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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La rabbia (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Everything for Sale (1969)
Plot Summary:
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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What Breaks the Ice (2020)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age thriller about two 15-year-old girls, Sammy and Emily, who hark from different worlds but strike up a quick and deep friendship. But what should be the best summer of their lives takes an unexpected turn when they become accidental accomplices in a fatal crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 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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War Eagle, Arkansas (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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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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The Baby Maker (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, tension, suspense
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Finn & the Sea of Noise (2013)
Plot Summary:
As Finn slips back into a groove of mindless parties, sunburn, and hangovers, he let's his life take a mind-numbing vacation. But when he's confronted with death first hand, he takes a new outlook on life, remembering his endless dreams and goals when he was young. A micro-budget, DIY-minded, independent film incorporating elements from mumblecore and found footage cinema.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, dark comedy
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A Separate Peace (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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Our Winning Season (1978)
Plot Summary:
A high-school track star (Scott Jacoby) fools around with his buddy (Dennis Quaid), until a Vietnam War tragedy makes him grow up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Last Summer (1969)
Plot Summary:
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky, independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic
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Sling Blade (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: independent film, southern gothic, neo noir, serious, sincere, touching, bleak, depressing, emotional, sad