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Plot Summary:
A young woman arrives in New York to visit a friend and lands in one hot spot after another as she fends off the perverted advances from every man she meets.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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It's Me, Now (2005)
Plot Summary:
Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Braves (2021)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and understudy in a high-profile play in Paris. Alma is keeping a secret that puts her role in jeopardy, but with the unwavering support of Margot, they will try their best to ensure that the show goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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Night-Flowers (1979)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the co- dependent, toxic relationship soon takes a gruesome turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On the Nickel (1980)
Plot Summary:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his old friends living on Los Angeles' skid row (Fifth Street - hence the film's title). Eventually finding his best friend, "C.G." (Waite), still living on the nickel, the two men reminisce, and Sam gets a fresh look at the lifestyle he had once vigorously abandoned. The film is a multi-level odyssey through the slums of L.A., as well Sam's personal ruminations as he re-evaluates the nostalgia he had felt for the free and bohemian lifestyle of a street person.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mouth to Mouth (1978)
Plot Summary:
Broke and homeless Australian teenagers in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Watch the Birdie (1965)
Plot Summary:
Four girls in search of thrills find more than they bargained for when they get caught in a vice trap with no escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Rage (2009)
Plot Summary:
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
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17000 Block (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld, 17000 Block tells the story of Buck, a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced, by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie, to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law, and the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Hard Knocks (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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All Women Are Bad (1969)
Plot Summary:
A New York salesman goes on a self-destructive spree of sex after finding his wife cheating on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
Plot Summary:
David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, art house, gay cinema, queer cinema
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To You, From Me (1994)
Plot Summary:
A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Little Ladies of the Night (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of under-age girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficultly escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult film
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5000 Blankets (2022)
Plot Summary:
When her husband has a mental breakdown and goes missing, a determined woman and her young son set out to find him on the streets, sparking a movement of compassion towards those in need and inspiring a city.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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One Naked Night (1965)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her prostitute mother, a young woman travels to New York City only to find herself in the clutches of lecherous men and deviate women. She tries to avoid the fast nightlife lifestyle, but she finds it more difficult than it sounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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37 (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably remained passive observers. The film is a convincing portrayal of a borough in change and a time characterized by racism, the Civil Rights Movement and political shifts. The actual event that inspired the film’s plot has been called a symbol for the moment when America lost its innocence. The director Puk Grasten skillfully weaves into her feature film debut various fates, dreams and family conflicts by leading us through an apartment building that comes to bear a collective failure.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Depraved! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Features the lives of three swingers couples whose debauched lifestyle of drugs, swapping mates, and abuse begins to catch up to all six of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Rent-a-Girl (1965)
Plot Summary:
A naive young woman looking for fun stumbles upon strange neighbors living in the same apartment building which she resides in. They start her off with a career in nude modeling, but in actuality turn out to be a ruthless brother and sister team who spearhead a kinky "girl renting" business for eccentric rich folk who get their jollies out of bondage and "whipping little girls 18 to 22".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: underground film, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Hollywood After Dark (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young girl comes to Hollywood to try to break into the movies, but winds up being taken advantage of by sleazy producers, and is forced to become a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Cargo (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
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Whore 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jack sets himself up in the Hotel St James to work on his book on prostitution in New York. Along the way he meets and grows fond of Mary Lou.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, social documentary, independent film, fake documentary
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Silvester Countdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sharon is a young office worker who sexually teases, seduces and then cries 'rape' on various men just to see them emotionally suffer for her own man-hating, twisted amusement leading to one lovestruck boyfriend being sent to prison, the financial ruin of another, and the meltdown and death of a third victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, weird, cult film
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Too Much Too Often! (1968)
Plot Summary:
When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has everybody fooled, except Mr. Dite (rotund BOB ORAN), an advertising executive and recent recipient of Mike’s services as a whip-wielding sadist. Taking advantage of the weak-willed masochist, Mike blackmails Dite into giving him a cushy job, then takes advantage of his new position by stealing Dite’s clients, seducing Dite’s elegant daughter, Sara (JOANNE CUNNINGHAM), and climbing his way up the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Two Faces of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Eleana (played by Anna Fonsou) is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encounters with various clients, she meets a young labourer called Christos whom she momentarily tries to develop a normal relationship with. Old habits die hard and she soon hits the streets again but it's too late, Christos has become infatuated with Eleana and plans to marry her. Gradually, the pressure and stress of the situation starts to take it's toll on Eleana's sanity and leads to a surreal, nightmarish climax!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Downfall (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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In Hot Blood (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita, an ill-paid factory worker, is determined to make it as a model in New York City. She's an ordinary girl with an extraordinary body. She learns by watching other models, but she also knows that photographers will insist on gratifying their own pleasure if she's to get the jobs. With a voice-over narration supplying all the commentary, we watch her six-month descent, from first jobs to wild parties, from drug use to seduction. "Pain is their pastime," says the narrator. How far will the degradation take Rita?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic