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Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, independent film
Peg Dahl is born in Buffalo, New York to a poor, blue-collar family. Disappointed in her family's financial situation and inspired by her late father's tendency to hustle, she looks for ways to make money. Through her childhood she studies…
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Action, Justice Drama, Psychodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a masked attacker. Returning to her apartment, she is raped a second time by a burglar. Thana strikes this seco…
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LGBTQ-related film, Road Movie, adventure film, drama film, road movie
In 1947 New York, on the day his father is buried, Sal Paradise is out with his friend Carlo Marx who is, like him, an aspiring writer. They're invited by mutual friend Chad to meet Dean Moriarty, a young car thief from Denver, and Dean's …
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Documentation, Komödie, Satire On Media, documentary film, independent film
Thierry Guetta is a French immigrant living in Los Angeles, who runs a successful upscale vintage clothing shop and obsessively films his life. While visiting France in 1999, Guetta discovers his cousin is famed street artist Invader. Fasc…
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Religious drama, drama film, independent film, religious film, romance film
Married couple Caleb Holt, a fire captain serving the Albany Fire Department, and Catherine Holt, a hospital administrator, are experiencing marital difficulties. At work, Caleb underscores the importance of never leaving one's partner beh…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror, drama film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, suspense film, thriller film
Carol Ledoux, a shy Belgian manicurist, lives in London with her older sister Helen. Carol is remarkably detached and struggles in her daily interactions. A suitor, Colin, is enamoured of her and makes fervent attempts to court her, but Ca…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film, independent film, romance film
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song he plays as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Max tells h…
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Splatter Film, action film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
During Halloween 1976, a group of carnival workers, Charly, Venus, Panda, Levon and Roscoe, gleefully travel through the countryside. Later that night, the group is attacked by people disguised as scarecrows and taken to a strange, large b…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, independent film, musical film, white savior film
In 1981 New York City, violinist Roberta Guaspari has recently divorced her U.S. Navy officer husband Charles Demetras, who has instead decided to pursue a romantic relationship with a friend of hers named Lana Holden. Encouraged by her mo…
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Thriller, independent film
Fourteen-year-old Ellie Christianson lives in an affluent neighborhood with her parents, Karen and Ben, and younger sister, Inger. Beneath their privileged life-style is one tinged with dysfunction and chaos. Ben is a workaholic with a hec…
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Dark Comedy, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, independent film, prison film, road movie
In New Orleans, radio disc jockey Zack lives with his girlfriend Laurette. After an argument, she throws him out of their apartment. Later, an acquaintance offers Zack money to drive a car across town.
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Christmas film, Horror, body horror film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, vampire film, zombie film
Rose Miller and her boyfriend, Hart Reed, are involved in a motorcycle accident in the Quebec countryside after encountering a van in the middle of the road. Hart suffers a broken hand, a separated shoulder and a concussion, while Rose is …
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Dark Comedy, Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, independent film
A group of people in a California desert are gathered to watch a "film". A sheriff named Chad points out that many moments in cinema happen for "no reason", that life is full of this "no reason", and that this film is an homage to "no reas…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Huckleberry Finn is a half-literate son of Pap Finn, an abusive drunk. One night, his father arrives and takes Huck from his foster family. Jealous of Huck's money being kept away, Pap attacks Huck, but eventually passes out from exhaustio…
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Romance Film, drama film, erotic film, independent film, romance film, sexploitation film
Set in the 1920s, Ayre "Mac" MacGillvary is a virginal 23-year-old young American who graduates from an exclusive British college. An orphan heiress to a vast fortune, Ayre is determined to find the right man for her first sexual encounter…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
Ron Decker, a twenty-one-year-old young man convicted for drug possession, is sent to prison where veteran con Earl Copen takes Decker under his wing and introduces him into his own gang. Copen first helps out Decker when three Puerto Rica…
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Animalhorror, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, natural horror film, thriller film
Captain Nolan is an Irish Canadian fisherman living in Newfoundland, who catches marine animals in order to pay the mortgage on his boat, "Bumpo", and eventually return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark on behalf …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, independent film
Hunter Conrad, a young woman from a lower-working-class family, has recently married Richie Conrad, a man from a wealthy family who is set to take over as CEO of his father's Manhattan corporation. This affords Hunter the ability to stay a…
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Zombiefilm, found footage film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Film footage from a news crew shows a story about an immigrant man killing his wife and son before committing suicide. The son and wife turn into zombies and kill several medical personnel and police officers, but leave one medic and a rep…
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Horror, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, exploitation film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Evans City, Pennsylvania, a man kills his wife and burns down his farmhouse. Firefighters David and Clank—both Vietnam War veterans—are called to the scene. David's pregnant girlfriend, a nurse named Judy, is called to the office of Dr.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dennis Cleg is a schizophrenic man who has just been released from a mental institution. Known as "Spider", he is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed people which is run by unrelenting landlady Mrs. Wilkinson.
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documentary film, independent film
In 2001, Lenny Cooke is one of the top-ranked high school basketball players. He expects to be selected in the 2002 NBA draft, but goes unselected. After having played in a series of minor leagues, he quits basketball.
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Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida and gives it the name Ramon. When the family returns home to Missouri, the girl's surly, animal-phobic father prompt…
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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, thriller film
Advertising executive Philip Woode wins dinner for two at a Manhattan restaurant on a Candid Camera-style television show. Danielle Breton, a young French Canadian model and aspiring actress who was part of the prank, flirts with Philip an…
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