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Plot Summary:
In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins a search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash. - Written by Chris Hartcher.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Fighting for Freedom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: hispanic
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Blood & Orchids (1986)
Plot Summary:
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Journey Among Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
Nine women convicts escape from a prison hell-hole and dare to create a savage world free of man.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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Martha and I (1990)
Plot Summary:
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 106 min
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Strikebound (1984)
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Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997)
Plot Summary:
Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993)
Plot Summary:
In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Countryman (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
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Crash Point: Berlin (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, captivating, disaster movie
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Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
Plot Summary:
Friday night he's too tired. Saturday night too drunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, homoerotic, independent film
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Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is difficult, however, as it is generally accepted that as those who are 'profoundly retarded' cannot communicate, therefore they cannot think. In the case of Annie O'Farrell (Tina Arhondis), finding a way for her to 'talk', other than speaking or writing, finally shows that she is not only able to think, but is highly intelligent. The battle against the hospital to acknowledge this in a legal sense goes to court, as the psychiatrists try to hide their misdiagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, learning
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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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Ice Bound (2003)
Plot Summary:
It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dramatic, suspense, realistic, disturbing
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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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My Breast (1994)
Plot Summary:
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)
Plot Summary:
After their pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight, passenger Doug White must safely land a plane and save his entire family from insurmountable danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Submerged (2001)
Plot Summary:
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Last Survivors (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Into the Fire (2005)
Plot Summary:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, gloomy
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Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
Plot Summary:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew and passengers to ever-growing despair. First they consider themselves relatively lucky as 14 out of 18 aboard are alive, including Captain Wilma De Groot, a medical doctor, but as time progresses the merciless cold makes it seem hopeless to check on Bob and Sue, who cannot be moved near the only campfire, while rescue attempts on land from Alert ('only' about 10 miles) and by air from Edmonton (8 hours flying) take no less then 32 hours to reach the plane wreck.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Miracles Still Happen (1974)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Petersen (1974)
Plot Summary:
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
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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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Infinite Storm (2022)
Plot Summary:
One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, Australia, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, road movie
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The Snow Walker (2003)
Plot Summary:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, sentimental, breathtaking, realistic, compassionate, touching, heartbreaking, sad, scenic