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Melodrama, Romance Film, Satire, drama film, independent film, romantic comedy film
Lost in Translation is the widely successful debut film of Sofia Coppola. Set in Tokyo under the bustling city life and lights, the two main characters from different generations build a surprising friendship on their common bond of insomn…
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ghost film, independent film
The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans.…
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Documentation
The documentary begins with Monica and David talking to each other via the phone a few days before the wedding. They are shown to be eager to wed and live together with Monica's mother Maria Elena and her stepfather Bob. Their wedding is l…
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independent film
Summer Pozzi, a Chicago-based flight attendant for an unnamed airline, is mentally preparing to quit her job and marry Jim, her soon-to-be airline pilot boyfriend. During a layover, she gets a phone call asking her to transfer to San Franc…
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independent film
Lloyd the Conqueror is Lloyd, a lazy college student with big dreams for the future. Lloyd and his two best friends Patrick and Oswald desperately need to pass their Medieval Literature class in order to keep their financial aid. Our heroe…
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independent film
independent film
Mike Kelly's father is driving his truck, when suddenly the brakes fail and he ends up losing control, resulting in a crash in which he dies. Kelly drops out of college and goes undercover as a trucker to find out what happened to his fath…
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ghost film, independent film
Ken won't change his ways. Addicted to food, Ken is in bad health, and is headed to an early grave. Despite getting help and advice from his friends and doctors, he does what he wants, when he wants; until a chance encounter with love that…
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independent film
The crew, led by a Bollywood filmmaker, arrives in the Himalayas to shoot a song and dance sequence for their upcoming blockbuster. However, after torrential downpours and landslides, they find themselves cut off from the outside world wit…
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Fantasy, Horror, independent film
Based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Poe is a series of three chilling stories adapted for the screen and based on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and one of his more obscure poems "Dreams". Bart …
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Crime, independent film
independent film
The film traces the delusions of a young woman, played by Natalie Portman. She is making futile attempts to follow a phantom travelling through the dunes of an empty sea beach, and, when it comes to an encounter in an abandoned house at th…
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Drama, independent film
Within the most storied city in the world lives Jake (Ernie Hudson), a homeless man who calls all of Manhattan his home. Jake discovers Cameron (Graeme Malcolm), a man down on his luck and sleeping in a tree in Central Park. Taking Cameron…
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documentary film, independent film
drama film, independent film
A story of an actual 12 year old boy seeking a solution to the ongoing problem of police officers shooting unarmed African American Men in his community.
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drama film, independent film
A story about a youth named Justin (Thai Ngo) who grows up on the streets of San Diego, and who dreams of becoming a rapper. Meanwhile, he befriends a parachute kid Taiwanese gangster named Charlie (David Huynh) and deals with other gang l…
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drama film, independent film
In rural Indiana, Noah Daly (Jordon Hodges) and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister Lauren (Anne Winters), who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
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independent film
independent film
Rodolfo Cano is a hot-tempered slacker living in Echo Park with his free-spirited girlfriend, Diaz, with whom he has a tumultuous relationship. On the morning of his birthday, they have a fight, and Rodolfo impulsively enlists in the army …
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independent film
independent film
Nellie (Emma Smith) is a young orphan who has arrived at an orphanage run by Mrs. Pryor (Maria Olsen), a cruel woman who only sees the facility as a way to earn money. To make matters worse, the orphanage's maintenance man (Bill Townsend) …
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independent film
The film begins at a funeral home where the mutilated body of a young man is being prepared. From there, the film shifts to the young man, his sister, and their companions on a wild picnic. They decide on a whim to spend the night in a gra…
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independent film
In the opening scenes of the film, a down and out DJ, Vince Vinyl (Alex Price) meets Sophie (Molly Ryman), a high society American girl, in a New York cafe. The two of them unexpectedly hit it off and after deciding to spend the day togeth…
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independent film
Flagg Purdy is a handyman who has been fighting a lifelong competition with Gus Falk, his neighbor. After losing a game of checkers and enduring other perceived slights, Flagg files a lawsuit against Falk, seeking to win control of a well …
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