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Plot Summary:
A young Air Force lieutenant falls in love with fighter planes while his father, a Congressman and war hero, yearns for him to fly heavy bombers.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Together Alone (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bryan meets a man called Bill in a bar. They go back to Bryan's home and have unprotected sex. Later, they wake up and talk. Bryan discovers that Bill's real name is Brian, and that he is bisexual. They spend hours talking, covering topics including AIDS, sexuality, feminism, role-play and Emily Dickinson.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast
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Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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For Love and Honor (1983)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983)
Plot Summary:
The lives and trials of the staff and civilian residents of a US naval base.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Five Minutes to Love (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ben, Edna and their baby daughter are headed to California when their car breaks down. Ben ventures off to the junkyard in search of a spare part to fix his car. Coincidentally, Harry (the seedy junkyard owner) has just been accused by the police of selling stolen auto parts, and claims that he gets his cars from someone else. Ben wanders into the junkyard just in time for Harry to frame him and use him as a scapegoat. When Ben doesn't return after quite a while, Edna goes looking for him. She is then chased around the junkyard by Harry's odd, dim-witted friend Blowhard.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
Plot Summary:
Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Last Passport (2009)
Plot Summary:
THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beautiful Dreamer (2006)
Plot Summary:
A pilot (Egglesfield) gets shot down and gets amnesia, later on his stricken-with-grief wife (Langton) finds him in a small town and she is shocked that he doesn't remember her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, dramatic, indie film, period drama
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Cloud Dancer (1980)
Plot Summary:
Brad Randolph (David Carradine) is the World Champion aerobatic pilot but now, in his early 40s, he faces many challenges to maintain his position. His physical struggles are heightened by the presence of a youthful competitor, Tom Loomis (Joseph Bottoms). Intertwined with his professional struggles is his relationship with Helen St. Clair (Jennifer O'Neil).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Shepherd (1984)
Plot Summary:
A father chooses between his enemy and the life of his own son. Bursting with “Top Gun” action, THE SHEPHERD explodes into the lives and conflicts of the men who push the edge of supersonic danger while defending our skies. The resulting bitterness of a split moment decision threatens to destroy the lives of the widowed wife and her young son.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Hollywood After Dark (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young girl comes to Hollywood to try to break into the movies, but winds up being taken advantage of by sleazy producers, and is forced to become a stripper.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Plot Summary:
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Nicole (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nicole is a beautiful, rich and neurotic woman who lives in a mansion alone with her maids and chauffeur. But without someone to really account to, Nicole begins to spin out of control. Her decadent and lustful life leads to murder, despair and, ultimately, mournful regret in this cautionary tale for the idle rich who have too much money and time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Frequent Flyer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Drama about airline pilot who is married to two separate women in separate towns and who eventually takes on a third wife. Much to his dismay, the separate worlds he lives in begin to collide, and the truth of his womanizing and bigamy begin to come to light.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Sweet Sickness (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
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Nature's Playmates (1962)
Plot Summary:
Chicago private detective Russell Harper and his assistant, Diana, travel to a Florida nudist camp to find a missing husband and both of them soon become embroided with the life of nudists while falling in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: detective, grindhouse, independent film
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Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 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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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force (1978)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political
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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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SST: Death Flight (1977)
Plot Summary:
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, disaster movie
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Incident at Map-Grid 36-80 (1982)
Plot Summary:
Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags:
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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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Afterburn (1992)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to offer. After much digging, Janet Harduvel discovers a joint military and General Dynamic cover-up. She proves to be unwavering in her search for the truth to clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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X-15 (1961)
Plot Summary:
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, experimental