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Plot Summary:
A UFO believer must choose between the aliens above he has never seen or the mysterious guide who appears in his campsite week after week.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, futuristic, independent film
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Search for the Gods (1975)
Plot Summary:
Two young people search for a valuable medallion, which they believe will prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, prehistoric
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Poor Folk (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away by the gangs as her mother has sold her to them. A-Hong goes to Bangkok and works under a tour guide, a wildcatter from Myanmar who has lived in Thailand illegally for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Myanmar, Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Man-eater (1991)
Plot Summary:
Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags:
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Ilegales (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tells the stories of a group of people in Ciudad de Juarez with one thing in common: they are all looking for a better life for them and their families. For many, that better life waits just a short walk away in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, contemplative
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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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Ma (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the American Southwest playfully deconstructing the woman’s role in a world of roles.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film, minimal cast
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The Blind Christ (2016)
Plot Summary:
Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Solitude (2002)
Plot Summary:
Each character involved in this psychological exploration of family and sexuality discovers what it means to suffer inexplicable torment rather than be alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film
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14 Kilometers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational, road movie
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La Migra (2015)
Plot Summary:
La Migra is a 'Romeo and Juliet' story set in the border crossing town of Imperial Beach, California - US Border Patrol Agent Diego Chavez (Michael Copon) works closely with his Uncle Manny Chavez (Marco Rodríguez) the Port Director for the San Ysidro Port of Entry, and the two have a close relationship, both professionally and personally. Currently dating San Diego Police Detective Tracy Jensen (Nikki SooHoo) ... Diego unexpectedly falls hard for Natalie Martinez (Antoinette Kalaj), his childhood sweetheart who lived next door to him. Natalie has now grownup into a beautiful woman who makes a great living as a model. However, as the CBP and Border Patrol join forces with ICE and DEA to investigate a new cartel that's popped up, Diego becomes uneasily aware that Natalie might be much more than she says.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, hispanic
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Desert Dream (2007)
Plot Summary:
This film takes place in a remote area, a desert region situated somewhere between the Mongolia and Chinese border. The town has become nearly void of all inhabitants except for Hangai, who works obsessively to plant trees in the desert area. Hangai’s own wife has recently left him, as their daughter became increasingly ill. While Hangai wallows in solitude, a North Korean refugee arrives at his doorstep with her son. They ask for shelter and Hanghai obliges. Although the trio can’t even speak a common language, they are able to communicate nonethless and work together to plant trees. It seems Hanghai is attracted to Soon Hee, but she doesn’t feel quite the same way. Then a Mongolian soldier stationed at a nearby camp, befriends the trio and the dynamics of their relationship start to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, France, Mongolia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious
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7 Suns (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to keep an eye on him. During the troubled crossing, the smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human cargo. "The Black" escapes from his former associates but also needs to ecape from the Border Patrol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Entertainment (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, mumblecore, weird
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30 Miles (2004)
Plot Summary:
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Aliens: Zone-X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Park Ranger Don Morgan is torn from his routine life, when he stumbles upon a UFO visitation in the arid, deserted Park Area where he resides. An inexplicable, bizarre power outage knocks out all electronics and communications, stranding a carload of hikers in the park, and downing a small plane. Searching for hydration in the blistering heat, Don must lead the survivors across an apparently abandoned Military Testing area called "ZONE-X".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic
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Heart of Now (2010)
Plot Summary:
"Heart of Now" concerns a young woman with a profound longing for a sense of family. Amber is devastated after her boyfriend abandons her because she's pregnant. She is whisked across a contrast of urban, natural and emotional landscapes. She confronts the deeper issues at the very heart of her suffering, and finds transcendence in a brief moment at the very heart of now.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy
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Last Days in the Desert (2015)
Plot Summary:
On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: biblical, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, stylized, independent film, fable
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Hope (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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Soldier of God (2005)
Plot Summary:
“Soldier of God” A film by W. D. Hogan From The New York Times Director W. D. Hogan‘s sweeping period epic “Soldier of God” unfurls in the Middle East of the late Twelfth Century. As the story opens, the Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions bloodthirstily vie with one another for power and control.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, epic, realistic
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Dreams I Never Had (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately inspires them to break free.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Obselidia (2010)
Plot Summary:
George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: uplifting, road movie, psychological, captivating, indie film, independent film, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Dreamland (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, gloomy
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The King Is Alive (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological, independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, road movie
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Ordeal (1973)
Plot Summary:
Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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3 Nights in the Desert (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, talky, serious, realistic, minimal cast, independent film
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Deep in the Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film, entertaining
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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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UFO (2018)
Plot Summary:
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, philosophical, political, psychotronic, enigmatic, weird
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Proximity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intellectual, mysterious, captivating, independent film
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Plot Summary:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric, visually appealing, visual, futuristic, light, sentimental