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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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The Shell Collector (2016)
Plot Summary:
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but has a healing and hallucinogenic effect on some people. Can people resist the creatureās temptation, or will they put their lives at risk for a heavenly trip?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min
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Horoscope (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young delinquents from a coastal town terrorize the locals, the tourists that spend the summer holidays there, as well as the young girls. They are especially focused on a pretty girl that sells newspapers, and they make a bet which one will seduce her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Berkeley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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White Hot (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Rite of Spring (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confidently enter a new phase. A story about that vital moment when anything is possible and how the most unexpected encounters can change our lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Flesh and Lace (1965)
Plot Summary:
Beverly a teaser bar girl, that think she hates men, but is in fact suffering from repressed nymphomania. She finds out when she flirts with her best friends man and gets thrown out in the street. Beverly runs into a toy store owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kanarifuglen (1973)
Plot Summary:
Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
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Erika's Hot Summer (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film
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Little Darling (2000)
Plot Summary:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Proxy (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Molly & Gina (1994)
Plot Summary:
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Together, they set out to bring the culprits to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Thumb Tripping (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Beyond Honor (2004)
Plot Summary:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Bare Naked Desires (2006)
Plot Summary:
Misty, a call girl working at a cathouse run by Tamiko. Tamiko runs her house like a mini-dictatorship, making all the girls follow a strict set of rules: No boyfriends, no orgasms, no taking tips, etc. Misty is the top girl in the house and is making the most money. Tamiko does her best to keep Misty in line, however. Tamiko asks, sensing Misty may be thinking about starting her own house. Of course Misty denies it, but she really wants moreā¦.especially when she finds out the customers are paying $100,000 a year each in membership fees.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Creatura (2023)
Plot Summary:
After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Lucky (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort to free herself and gain independence and right to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: social
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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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Dinah East (1970)
Plot Summary:
A glamorous movie queen of the 1950s is revealed to be a man whose secret led to complicated relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Ciudad de Ciegos (1991)
Plot Summary:
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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Child's Play (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Starlet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Frente al mar (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of people, both men and women, get together to exchange their points of view, practical and theoretical, about sexual life and the relations between couples.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Place by the Sea (1988)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Tracks (1976)
Plot Summary:
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: indie film, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Open Window (2006)
Plot Summary:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Beautiful Occasion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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Little Birds (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, independent film, teen, depressing, artsy, indie film, aesthetic
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