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Plot Summary:
A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
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Closer to the Sun (2016)
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A New York insurance company sends in a team of high levels investigators to assess a claim related to the accidental death of six workers on an oil platform off the coast of Nigeria. As the investigation unfolds it becomes clear that the dead men were in fact taken hostage by terrorists and slaughtered. In normal circumstances the huge claim would just be refused. But these aren't normal circumstances; the insurance company has walked into a political and economic minefield. Denial would place them at odds with Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Multi-national companies working in the region would be severely punished. There could only be one solution: pay up. Keep silent and pretend. The chief investigator is left hopelessly compromised.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
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Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote alpine village to interview a famed malnutrition expert. Upon his arrival, Volonte learns that there's an ongoing investigation in the village concerning the mysterious death of an Italian immigrant. Inexorably, the journalist becomes involved in the investigation, and with equal inexorability the chain of evidence leads to the malnutritionist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
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White Powder (2016)
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White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London gangstas, and each other, in an attempt to keep control of a stash of cocaine that they found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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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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The Loners (1972)
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On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and more death. The police intensify the search, but the three won't give up that easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Loveless (1981)
Plot Summary:
A small midwestern town descends into chaos with the arrival of a motorcycle gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, period piece, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, weird
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Raping! (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: crying
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Homer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Homer is 18... and he wants to keep the feeling of the first time going for the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anamorphic, independent film, juvenile, cult film
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Shame (1988)
Plot Summary:
Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis' teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently date-raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family's lives are in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crying, independent film, detective, tension, suspense
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Gina (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
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Angel (William Smith), an outlaw biker, sells out his gang by exposing their wild conquests to Like magazine for $10,000. With his photo on the cover, Angel skips town and tries to start over with help from sheep rancher Dan Felton (Dan Kemp). An ex-motorcycle enthusiast, Dan becomes a mentor to Angel, giving him hope for a peaceful future. But Angel must put hope aside when members of his former gang viciously attack Dan's teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Madame O (1967)
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After being brutally gang-raped, a young girl grows into a woman with a double life: She's a well-to-do doctor by day and, by night, a revenge-driven streetwalker who uses sex as a weapon. That all changes when she finally falls in love and begins a new life with her husband -- only to discover that he has a troubling secret of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse
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A Scream from Silence (1979)
Plot Summary:
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Silent Witness (1985)
Plot Summary:
The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Icebox (2018)
Plot Summary:
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, ambiguous ending, touching, suspenseful, political
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Family Nest (1979)
Plot Summary:
Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event--including one that's relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, black and white
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Angels Die Hard (1970)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Just for the Hell of It (1968)
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A teenage gang led by the vicious Dexter; his girlfriend Mitzi; and friends Denny and Lummonx; create havoic in a small Florida town by harrassing various people, vandalizing property, well... just for the hell of it. When a former gang member, Doug, tries to prevent their ever increasing violent antics, Denny takes it upon himself and a few loyal members of the gang to target Doug's girlfriend, Jeanne, to make him back off.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Scandal in a Small Town (1988)
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Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter Julie, a high school student, as a loving responsible mother. So, when she becomes aware that Julie's very popular history teacher, Mr Baker, spreads antisemitic ideas among his pupils, Leda Beth decides to ask Mr Baker for an explanation. But she comes up against a wall. Nobody in town - Julie less than all others - wants to support her and it looks as if she will have to bring the Board of Education to court. The trouble is that a school dropout and a tramp of her kind does not count for much compared to the holders of knowledge and of morality.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Brava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, experimental
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Angel Blue (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dennis (Sam Bottoms) is a handsome, successful and well-liked civic leader who lives in his hometown with his lovely wife (Lisa Eichhorn) and their new baby. When Enrique Vasquez (Marco Rodriguez) and his striking teen daughter Angela (Yeniffer Behrens) move in next door, Dennis is only too happy to lend a hand. But when he and Angela begin an affair, Dennis's perfect life is threatened in this provocative drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sensual, crying
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Rape of Love (1978)
Plot Summary:
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychological, rough, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing
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Paris Trout (1991)
Plot Summary:
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated South, leading to a spiral of perverse insanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
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The Rebel Rousers (1970)
Plot Summary:
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Born Wild (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison for the murder of a fellow biker; CJ returns to his hometown to confront his former gang. However; he arrives to find that the past is not forgotten easily; and now they are out for blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social, tense, period piece, serious, emotional, realistic
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Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
Plot Summary:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt that Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, talky, offbeat, spiritual, mind blowing, sincere, clever, touching, serious
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Plot Summary:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, touching, atmospheric, emotional, bleak, lyrical, visual, philosophical, art house