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Plot Summary:
A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: experimental, political, independent film
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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 Local Stigmatic (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
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The Way (2010)
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A young Latino boy grows up in a poor barrios of Los Angeles. "Ramon Sanchez" lives with his single mother, a sister, a grandfather and his mother's abusive and violent boyfriend. When Ramon sees that his mother can't pay the rent, he decides to take matters into his own hands and joins a local gang. At first Ramon makes much needed money for his mother. But things go from bad to worse and Ramon ends up in prison. After his release he finds it hard to get back into society and is ready to go back to the gang. Will Ramon choose the gang life again or will he find another way?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: crying, hispanic
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Exiled in America (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
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Underdogs (2007)
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In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks make all convicts volunteer for only seven slots. Except burly macho Moskowitch 'Mosk', who cares only for the manly work out contest. The warden blackmails him, he can only do the contest if his assigned pup passes the first test. All dogs must pass or the project is halted. Unlike the others, Mosk only starts caring for his canine when it gets sick.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
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For Love and Honor (1983)
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A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Baltic Love (1994)
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Lost love and politics: three episodes from three Baltic nations. In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But other Russian soldiers use coarse violence against them, even threatening to rape the girl. The couple realise that they cannot continue their relation. In Lithuania an old priest had spent 15 years in Siberia and may still be secretly watched by the police. His nephew is a priest student but he will accept if the nephew decides not to become a priest. And – the nephew and an Estonian stripper fall in deep love. The couple sleep together and agree to meet at the railway station the next morning. But when the student comes home his uncle has died. With great pain he abandons the girl and take care of his uncle's body. On the train the girl weeps because of her lost love. - Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 96 min
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Ivin A. (1990)
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Soldiers of internal troops Ivin A. standing on duty at night, could not shoot escapes bandit and murderer Prince Mishka. The explanatory he wrote that he refused to continue to dispose of another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
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The Illiac Passion (1967)
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Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, underground film, independent film
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
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Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Norway, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: depressing, political, independent film
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Gli Invisibili (1988)
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At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Man-eater (1991)
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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
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The Glass Menagerie (1966)
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An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
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Rolling Man (1972)
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While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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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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The Connection (1961)
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Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment belonging to Leach. Jim Dunn, a budding filmmaker, has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film the connection scene. After the men get their shots, they talk Dunn into trying heroin in order to understand the subject "first hand." He becomes ill and while sleeping, Leach takes an overdose that puts him into a coma. Dunn recovers, with the aid of the connection, and writes off the film as a failure.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, underground film, social, independent film, avant garde, experimental, fake documentary
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The Balcony (1963)
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Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, grotesque, hot
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The Year of the Tiger (2011)
Plot Summary:
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Tribe (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Stuck! (2009)
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Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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Getting Out (1994)
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Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (Rebecca De Mornay) resolves to get a job and lead a good, Christian life. But the ghosts from her past -- including an ex-boyfriend (Rob Knepper) who wants to pimp her out and a sadistic mother (Ellen Burstyn) who plots to take away Arlene's baby -- have other plans. This made-for-TV drama is based on Marsha Norman's off-Broadway play.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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One Hamlet Less (1973)
Plot Summary:
The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental
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Badland (2007)
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Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Summertree (1971)
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Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
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Short Eyes (1977)
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A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, grim, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Fast-Walking (1982)
Plot Summary:
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, rough, clever, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cynical
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The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Attica (1980)
Plot Summary:
A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tension, suspense