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Plot Summary:
A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water. Fearing that they may never be found where they are, they head for where it is hoped there will be civilization and rescue. When their hopes prove unfounded, they must face the horrible possibility of choosing between giving up and dying, or doing the unthinkable to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Windows on the World (2019)
Plot Summary:
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Fools (1970)
Plot Summary:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Stained Glass Windows (2010)
Plot Summary:
A darkly intelligent teenage girl struggles to overcome her past and the restraints of suburban society while trying to come to terms with the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Residue (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: social
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Maidstone (1970)
Plot Summary:
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, independent film, weird, cinema verite, fake documentary
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A Line in the Sand (2009)
Plot Summary:
Drama - Set in the present-day Iraq war, this tense and gripping drama unfolds as two US Marines find themselves stranded and alone in the desert after their unit is all but destroyed in a routine mission. One of their team is taken hostage in the attack, their Humvee is stolen, their communications are down and their supplies are limited. - Gary Weeks, Rob Botts, Paul J. Alessi.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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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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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Dirkie - Lost in the Desert (1969)
Plot Summary:
An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: action thriller
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of women on the eve of its release.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult 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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International Airport (1985)
Plot Summary:
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Caged Hearts (1995)
Plot Summary:
Kate and Sharon kill a man in self defense and are framed by the justice system. They are put in prison and forced into prostitution. With the help of their defense attorney, they devise a plan to bust out of prison and hopefully expose the group of corrupt politicians, judges, lawyers, etc. who put them there in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Chicas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Blue Hour (1971)
Plot Summary:
THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period sexploitation.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Venice Beach (1982)
Plot Summary:
A runaway tries to survive being homeless at Venice Beach, California.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Water Child (1995)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year-old girl finds herself stranded on a lonely Caribbean island with a 20-year old retarded man in this sensitively rendered Canadian drama from Quebec. Emile and Cedrine are first seen during their rescue in which both are nearly in a coma. Their story of how they got there and survived is told via flashback. The two were the only survivors of a plane crash and at first Cedrine is terrified of Emile, thinking he might lose control and rape her. Fortunately, Emile is gentle and the two become friends, playmates, and eventually lovers in scenes that exploit neither character.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Miriam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty years, from the German occupation of World War II through the Soviet era, and is based upon the true story of Miriam Shafer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Miracle Landing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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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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Freedom (2000)
Plot Summary:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, stylized, gloomy, avant garde
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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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First Winter (2012)
Plot Summary:
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety and their idyllic harmony begins to lose its tune. As time wears on and the food supply dwindles, power struggles, jealousy, and desire threaten the group's ability to work together in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, mumblecore, gloomy, independent film
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Thirst (2010)
Plot Summary:
After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of survival. Their civility rapidly deteriorates as they begin to experience overwhelming fear and desperation in this tense drama starring Lacey Chabert, Tygh Runyan, Brandon Quinn and Mercedes McNab.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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A Captive in the Land (1990)
Plot Summary:
An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons them both and the unlikely duo must learn to overcome their differences in order to survive the real life terrors of the Arctic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Plot Summary:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Donner Party (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, mysterious, suspenseful, bleak, wild
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, retro, action adventure