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Plot Summary:
A Native American grandmother who lives very simply alone in the desert actually inhabits a world that her half-Hispanic grandson and a white aging magician are surprised to rediscover.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Desert Winds (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jackie and Eugene are joined by a mystical wind tunnel which enables them to speak across a 500-mile desert. Believed by the Indians to be an omen of good luck, the wind inspires both characters to face their fears and follow their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ultrasound (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: mysterious, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing, dark
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The Ringing Bell (2020)
Plot Summary:
Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of an important person in his life, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at the riches of their eccentric Uncle Airmid who has disappeared, Judah agrees to go along with it.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized
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Paper Man (1971)
Plot Summary:
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense
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One Under the Sun (2017)
Plot Summary:
Astronaut Kathryn Voss, sole survivor of a disastrous space shuttle mission, is a distraught mother desperate to reunite with her terminally ill daughter but becomes a wanted fugitive after discovering she possesses an extraordinary gift.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Backlight (2010)
Plot Summary:
Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, contemplative, tense, psychological, captivating, mindfuck, serious
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15 Till Midnight (2010)
Plot Summary:
Parallel worlds collide as a secret society policing this phenomena track a man whose wife has seemingly disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Out Stealing Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: existential
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Implanted (2013)
Plot Summary:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)
Plot Summary:
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A strange, mysterious neighbor, by the name of MacKayla moves in next door to the Harts. And, most frightening of all, Anna sees her exact double on the television one night. As her investigation of the other Anna, Anna Smithson, progresses, she begins to learn the truth. The truth about a woman named Anna Zimmerman that has been dead for twenty years, and most importantly, the truth about herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, tech noir, scary, serious
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Frybread Face and Me (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Imitation Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Letters from the Big Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Smith, an artist and government hydrologist, sets out on a post-fire stream survey in a remote part of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southwestern Oregon. In the course of her journey through this ancient and ecologically diverse land, she unwittingly finds herself interacting with a sasquatch man, and a mutual curiosity ensues. As their friendship deepens, Sarah must take bold steps to protect his privacy, as well as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, offbeat, independent film
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The Dark Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Big Empty (2003)
Plot Summary:
Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, semi serious, cynical, independent film, clever, mindfuck, intellectual, thought provoking, surreal
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The Wisdom Tree (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three very different people — a quantum physicist, a neuroscientist (Sheetal Sheth), and an FBI agent — find themselves drawn into a spiraling mystery. Confronted with a mysterious car accident, the three must interpret clues that defy common sense. Their collective quest takes them from science to art to music to mysticism in a widening search for answers. After an intense outward chase to satisfy their rational minds, the trio realizes the answers they desire lie buried deep within themselves. As each seeker begins to embrace the true nature of reality, each is rewarded with revelations beyond their wildest imaginings. What they learn leaves them humbled and in awe of the strange and beautiful universe we call home. When everything makes sense, nothing makes sense. This highly philosophical narrative has been applauded by scientists, artists, thinkers, scholars, media, academia, students and audiences from 10 to 80+ years old.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, spiritual
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Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, spiritual, saga, patriotic, epic, contemplative
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Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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The Wall (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, serious, scenic, philosophical, art house, retro, sexy, mind bending
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until he meets young Grace, who wants to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, surprise ending, bleak, dark, suspenseful, visually stunning, road movie, sad, realistic
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Roswell (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, cynical
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Plot Summary:
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: philosophical, stylized, serious, futuristic, talky, captivating, thought provoking, spiritual, apocalyptic, patriotic
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Quintet (1979)
Plot Summary:
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, grindhouse, disgusting, psychotronic
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Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
Plot Summary:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, absurd, thought provoking, serious, captivating, spiritual, political, saga, patriotic
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Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the scavengers, and a communal farm. We also see how the community deals with those who threaten it, and how the youth are growing up with different values from those who knew our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, bleak, serious, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, independent film, thought provoking
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Arrival (2016)
Plot Summary:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 747000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, twist ending, futuristic, visually stunning, enigmatic, cerebral, thought provoking
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Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 372000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, philosophical, futuristic, bleak, cerebral, mind bending, minimal cast, mindfuck, intense
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K-PAX (2001)
Plot Summary:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, clever, mind twisting
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Upstream Color (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, mindfuck, tense, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental, stylized