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Plot Summary:
A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Booby Trap (1970)
Plot Summary:
A crazed military explosives expert heads for Los Angeles with an RV full of explosives, intending to blow up a rock festival and kill all the "hippies". An army officer is sent to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 89%
Truck Stop Women (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, sexual, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
Similar in 82%
Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
Plot Summary:
A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Similar in 89%
Summer School (1978)
Plot Summary:
Anita is the new girl at school. When Steve gets one look at the voluptuous transfer, it sets his girlfriend Donna into a tailspin and she'll stop at nothing to make sure these two never unite.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Moonshine County Express (1977)
Plot Summary:
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Unholy Rollers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current number one star of the team. Karen proves herself a feisty competitor but refuses to be a team player. As she skates her way to roller stardom, she incurs the wrath of jealous team members and the owner of the team.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Similar in 79%
Trucker's Woman (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young man takes up truck-driving to investigate his trucker father's suspicious death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy
Similar in 80%
Ride The Hot Wind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Captain Shank is an outcast officer and gets dishonorably discharged. He tries to get back on his feet, but his reputation keeps following him around ruining everything. When he meets some bikers he gets caught up in a life he tries desperately to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
Plot Summary:
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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The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
The Hitchhikers (1972)
Plot Summary:
This enjoyably goofy'n'duffy piece of 70's drive-in fluff centers on a six woman outlaw gang who prey on hapless backwoods motorists. The gals are owned and trained by the amiable, scruffy, pleasantly mellow Manson-like Benson (shaggy hairball Norman Klar), a charismatically breezy anti-establishment type who wants to raise enough money to purchase a bus so he and his female family can go to California.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, road movie
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Hard Knocks (1979)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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High-Ballin' (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke (Jerry Reed) and his visiting friend, Rane (Peter Fonda), put the brakes on the bad guys by taking the law into their own hands. But their vigilante plan involves going toe-to-toe with powerful trucker boss King Carroll (Chris Wiggins) and his henchmen, who've been driving everyone out of the game.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Plot Summary:
The events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. It has to be closed down for development reasons but one of the regular customers, Cowboy, seems to have friends in high places.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: indie film, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Bury Me an Angel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie, independent film
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Purgatory Blues (2001)
Plot Summary:
Loser drug addict Jack winds up in hell after he gets killed by Steve, who's the abusive husband of the sweet Martha. Jack strikes up a deal with the head demon known as The Principal to get out of hell and return to life: He has 72 hours to corrupt an innocent soul or else he'll be condemned to Hades forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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C.C. & Company (1970)
Plot Summary:
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann's admiring eye. His win puts him at odds with Moon, leader of "The Heads." When C.C. leaves with his cut of the purse, the bikers kidnap Ann, and C.C. races Moon to win her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Macon County Line (1974)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Sparkler (1997)
Plot Summary:
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she meets her old high school pal Dottie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, crying
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Scumbag Hustler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Soloman Crow pays a visit to his god fearing, bible quoting, closeted homosexual brother and his sexually repressed wife. He enters their home with a proclamation to kick a drug habit that almost cost him his life. Broke, it doesn't take Soloman long to start conning and scheming his way around the city to feed his ravenous cravings for dope and sex. Even his brother's wife isn't immune to Soloman's mind games... If you want a hero with redeeming qualities, look somewhere else.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, light, feel good, contemplative, sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, cult film
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Bad Georgia Road (1977)
Plot Summary:
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two brothers who drive to Texas to find out the truth behind their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, emotional, entertaining, semi serious, crying
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Support the Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely--but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction…Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, mumblecore, light, captivating, social, cult classic
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A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take hostage a pair of traveling young lovebirds, with no shortage of problems of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Skin and Bone (1996)
Plot Summary:
Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, experimental, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, sexual
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Telling You (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Tuff Turf (1985)
Plot Summary:
The new guy (James Spader) in a Los Angeles high school does some singing and fights a hotshot (Paul Mones) over a disco dancer (Kim Richards).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, erotic, light, atmospheric
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Hick (2011)
Plot Summary:
A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, semi serious, road movie, sweet, sad, dramatic, black comedy
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Diggers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, period piece, independent film, biting, suspense