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Plot Summary:
After trying and failing to seduce her teacher, 16-year-old Alex runs away from her boarding school. Trying to seek out the biological father her mother has always kept hidden from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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2 to Tangle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jessica's true love, Tom, starts appearing to her after his death. Terrified and confused, Jess seeks out an explanation for these haunting attacks and discovers that the key to her deliverance is her faith. The answers to her questions may surprise you.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: christian film, crying, happy, feel good
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Devil's Peak (2023)
Plot Summary:
In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Concierge (2017)
Plot Summary:
A concierge shows a tiny apartment to many urban types: a divorcee, an immigrant artist, a widower, a youth striking out on her own. Each one feels an immediate attachment to the place, and each one appeals to the concierge. But he is powerless to decide on anyone, including his own daughter. He humbly sends off each visitor's information to the owner, then waits. After many visits and still no decision, the concierge grows troubled. He goes to the owner, searching for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Doonby (2013)
Plot Summary:
A handsome drifter, without a past, gets off an interstate bus in a small Texas town and finds work at Leroy's Country Blues Bar....and the mystery begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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Out Stealing Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: existential
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Oceania (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers deal with their shattered family-life in a small California coastal town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: bleak, independent film, student film
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Bruiser (2022)
Plot Summary:
During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Lace II (1985)
Plot Summary:
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags:
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The Homefront (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left his husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an alcoholic. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to maintain a connection with J.P., and Elaine is strongly against it.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
Plot Summary:
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Mr. Bharath (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mr.Bharath is a Tamil film is directed by SP. Muthuraman. The film stars Rajnikant, Sathyaraj, Ambika, Goundamani, S. V. Shekhar and others. The plot is about a son's revenge against his father. It is a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Trishul which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags:
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Different Eye (2017)
Plot Summary:
Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's crumbling relationship cause them to send Maria away for good?.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Stonebreaker (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Blinded by the Light (1980)
Plot Summary:
David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Rukh (2017)
Plot Summary:
Away from home in a boarding school, 18-year-old Dhruv is ignorant about the ongoing crisis in his family. His life takes an unexpected turn as he gets the news of his father’s death in a car accident. As he copes with the tragedy, hidden truths begin to unravel. Even as his mother Nandini struggles to shield him, Dhruv starts looking for answers. Was his father's death an accident or a premeditated murder? The search leads to a series of unexpected revelations, as he discovers the shades of his father’s personality he had never seen before.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Secrets in a Small Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, suspense
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After (2014)
Plot Summary:
A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of 2002, "After" is about the Valentinos, a middle class clan facing financial hardship--their family stone cutting business is slowly failing--and coping with the usual rivalries and resentments that affect all but their absent daughter, Samantha, who has recently escaped Rochester for a new life in lower Manhattan. At their center is matriarch Nora (Quinlan), whose cheerful exterior masks an emotional fragility of which the entire family is painfully aware and fiercely protective. But, their delicate balance is threatened by a carefully concealed secret that, once revealed, will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, independent film, tense, serious, gloomy, crying
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Three Days of Rain (2002)
Plot Summary:
Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, independent film
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A Death of Innocence (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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No Place Like Home (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, tv series pilot
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Alternate Weeks (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her father who is flat broke after leaving his bank job to give people free hugs on street corners. Her brother channels his sense of injustice into the battle to save the planet. As the school year progresses and her parents struggle to mend their lives and as the girl approaches her 13th birthday, she learns to see the world in a new way.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Forever (1991)
Plot Summary:
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Without a Trace (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her and her husband suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness. Squandered on a Hollywood ending that doesn't square with the real case: Etan Patz was never found.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, sincere, realistic, bleak, detective, crime drama
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Sandra (1965)
Plot Summary:
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew meets for the first time Gianni, Sandra's brother. He soon realizes that Sandra and Gianni have a secret since their childhood. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Afterschool (2008)
Plot Summary:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, bleak, independent film, suspense, cerebral, philosophical, mumblecore, controversial, teen
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Separation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Shattered Spirits (1986)
Plot Summary:
Martin Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spiritual, sincere, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Plot Summary:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing, tense, gloomy, serious, neo noir, independent film