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Plot Summary:
Country singer Joe Hawkins must fight both drug addiction and his unscrupulous manager to get back on his feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Lola the Truck Driving Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tank (1984)
Plot Summary:
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey (James Garner) butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son (C. Thomas Howell), it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, light, inspirational, sexy, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining
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Absolute Hundred (2001)
Plot Summary:
Igor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junky without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Since he's not getting enough terms to practice indoors, he's decided to go out and find himself a target to practice on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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Loner (1990)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an entertainer, Cage is forced into a death match with the brutal doctor death. He must win, or he will die.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic
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Cole Justice (1989)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher seeks revenge after one of his students is killed by a drug overdose.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, neo western, cult film
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Outlaw Blues (1977)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a country music superstar. When his confrontation with the star takes a violent turn the ex-con has to go back on the run, but he finds an unexpected ally in a shrewd background singer with a plan to turn the tables in his favor.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Ninja Vengeance (1993)
Plot Summary:
Traveling from California to Houston, a martial arts expert suffers a motorcycle breakdown in a small Texas town. But his bad luck proves to be a blessing in disguise for the local townspeople when he discovers the corrupt sheriff and his KKK cronies beating a young black student to death. Following the code of the ninja, the mysterious warrior embarks on a one-man crusade to clean up the streets. But his quest is complicated by a strong-willed young woman who insists on helping him.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad. Mark Hamill and Don Stroud also star.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, crying
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War Party (1988)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gone with the Bullets (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized
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True Blood (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his neighborhood to take his brother with him, but things are worse than he could expect: his brother, now 18 years old, hates him and is a member of Billy Masters' gang. Furthermore, Billy Masters is looking for revenge and... the police is still after Ray for the murder of the police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, detective
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Justice Chaudhury (1983)
Plot Summary:
An honest and upright lawyer becomes a judge; marries his disabled daughter to a crook, and is blackmailed to compromise his judicial judgements.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Action, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ram Lakhan (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sharda (Raakhee) vows vengeance when her husband is murdered by his two evil cousins, Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal), and she and her two young sons are thrown out on the street. Those sons grow into the upstanding police officer Ram (Jackie Schroff) and the easily tempted dreamer Lakhan (Anil Kapoor). If the family is to be avenged, Ram will have to lead his brother away from the path of corruption he's strayed onto, and protect him from the influence of Bhanu and Bhishamber.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Roadie (2011)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, romantic drama, gloomy, independent film
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One Man Up (2001)
Plot Summary:
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Evocatively set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead entirely separate yet strangely parallel lives. One (Toni Servillo, Gomorrah) is a pop singer who finds himself washed up after a sex scandal ends his run of success; the other (Andrea Renzi) a football hero whose playing career is abruptly cut short by injury. Sharply observed and featuring excellent performances from the two leads, Sorrentino's compelling film explores the personal consequences wrought by cruel reversals of fortune. (iTunes).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, clever, captivating, contemplative, talky
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Handle with Care (1977)
Plot Summary:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Plot Summary:
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic
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Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Plot Summary:
"From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my redemption. This is my confession." (Eddie Castillo 2005).
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Beat (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a split narrative, a young man follows two paths: his father's dream of him becoming a cop, and his own dream of becoming a rapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, sentimental, offbeat, contemplative
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Tough Enough (1983)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own career success. His isolation is lifted when his three sisters and estranged father come to spread his mother’s ashes. Brook’s loving sisters have a magical effect on his anger and apathy, suggesting there may be hope for the misanthropic musician after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, realistic, mumblecore, gloomy, independent film, inspirational
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Just Another Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young Eastie, is a young man struggling in a harsh world that is threatening to destroy him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood
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Payday (1973)
Plot Summary:
A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan which he stabbed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, independent film, psychological, tense, sincere, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Tender Mercies (1983)
Plot Summary:
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, christian film, depressing, philosophical
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The End of Innocence (1990)
Plot Summary:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Rudderless (2014)
Plot Summary:
A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, heartbreaking, emotional, compassionate, melancholic, suspenseful, lyrical, sincere, serious, captivating
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The Identical (2014)
Plot Summary:
During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a wildly successful '50s rock star, while the other, Ryan Wade, struggles to balance his passion for music and pleasing his parents, who want him to become a preacher. Finally, Ryan rebels against his parents' wishes and launches his own music career -- performing the hits of Drexel Hemsley. Ryan later learns the truth about Drexel when their fates tragically collide.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, exciting, sentimental, disgusting
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Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
Plot Summary:
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)
Plot Summary:
Prey for Rock & Roll is set in the Los Angeles club scene of the late 1980s and follows the story of Jacki (Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom. Along the way, the women are rocked by personal tragedies that threaten to break up the band before they can get their last shot at success.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, cynical, witty, gloomy, sexual, sexy