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After the Rain
( 1999 )
Steph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe trouble brews.
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Hidalgo
( 2004 )
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
( 1991 )
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
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A Shot in the Dark
( 1965 )
Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.
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Woyzeck
( 1979 )
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
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Android
( 1983 )
A strange doctor secretly experiments with androids on his space station. His assistant is Max, a curious android who wants to see the world and meet a girl. Criminals hide on their station and soon violence erupts.
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My Best Fiend
( 1999 )
The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
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The Sugarland Express
( 2025 )
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.
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Silent Running
( 1972 )
In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
( 1972 )
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
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Switch
( 2011 )
Sophie uses the online service switch.com to switch a Paris apartment with her Toronto sea house for a holiday, to try to find work. After a dream day the police raids her apartment discovering a corpse, and suspect her of the crime.
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The Sum of All Fears
( 2002 )
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to incite a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Sapphires
( 2012 )
In 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
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The Special Relationship
( 2010 )
A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
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The Score
( 2001 )
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
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Return from the River Kwai
( 1989 )
A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan.
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Fierce Creatures
( 1997 )
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.
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A Cry in the Dark
( 1988 )
A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
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Plenty
( 1985 )
A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
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The Squid and the Whale
( 2005 )
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
( 2004 )
In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a boy while teaching wisdom and compassion through experience and endless exercises.
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Southern Comfort
( 1981 )
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals.
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Soylent Green
( 1973 )
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
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Secretary
( 2002 )
A timid young woman starts working for a demanding lawyer and finds a new way to deal with her self-harming urges.
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Summer of Sam
( 1999 )
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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Strictly Ballroom
( 1993 )
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
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Subway
( 1985 )
On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
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State of Play
( 2009 )
An investigative journalist probes the murder of a Congressman's mistress.
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Shine
( 1997 )
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
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Shrink
( 2009 )
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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The Siege
( 1998 )
The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.
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Shine a Light
( 2008 )
A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.
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Siege
( 1983 )
A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths, and all the patrons are killed except for one man who escapes and takes refuge in an apartment occupied by a group of friends, who will do anything they can to protect him and survive the siege.
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Satan's Triangle
( 1975 )
A US coast guard finds only a woman still alive aboard a shipwreck. She tells her rescuer what happened and soon, they find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
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A Bunch of Amateurs
( 2008 )
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.
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The Village
( 2004 )
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
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Signs
( 2002 )
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
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The Sixth Sense
( 1999 )
After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.
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Straw Dogs
( 2011 )
Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
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Star Trek
( 1966 )
The original Star Trek series focuses on the 23rd century adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701), a powerful interstellar spacecraft dispatched by Earth-based Starfleet Command to explore the galaxy. Kirk commands a crew of 430 men and women aboard his starship, which can travel at speeds surpassing the speed of light. Kirk's five-year mission—and his mandate from Starfleet—is to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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The Hire
( 2003 )
Recompilation of the all short films of from the series of short films produced by BMW The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the Driver.
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TV Show:
The Hire
( 2001 )
Launched in 2001, BMW Films' The Hire was a series of eight ground-breaking online short films starring Clive Owen as an enigmatic driver for hire. Available only online and released four years before the invention of YouTube, the films were critically-acclaimed and fifteen years later still have a cult following.
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The Scalphunters
( 1968 )
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
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Sleeper
( 1973 )
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
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Shakespeare-Wallah
( 1965 )
The family troupe of English actors in India, performing Shakespearean plays, witness India's transformation as Maharajas shift to hotel owners, sports dominate, and theater replaced by Bolliwood movies.
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Scent of a Woman
( 1993 )
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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Savage Messiah
( 2002 )
As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
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Starman
( 1984 )
An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
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Powaqqatsi
( 1988 )
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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The Misfits
( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle.
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Stormy Monday
( 1988 )
A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.
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Thieves' Highway
( 1949 )
A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce marketer.
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The Thin Red Line
( 1999 )
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
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Three Times
( 2005 )
Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.
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Trading Places
( 1983 )
A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
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Traffic
( 2001 )
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
( 1974 )
Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Towering Inferno
( 1974 )
At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
( 1970 )
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
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Topaz
( 1969 )
French Intelligence Agent Andre Devereaux becomes embroiled in Cold War politics, first by uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then breaking up an international Russian spy ring.
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The Two Jakes
( 1990 )
The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.
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Too Late the Hero
( 1970 )
A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.
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Trancers
( 1984 )
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
( 1968 )
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
( 1963 )
A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
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To Catch a Thief
( 1955 )
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
( 1974 )
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
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To Live and Die in L.A.
( 1985 )
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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Trust
( 1991 )
Two young misfits with a troubled home life find each other.
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The Truman Show
( 1998 )
An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.
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True Crime
( 1999 )
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
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Treasure Island
( 1950 )
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
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Training Day
( 2001 )
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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Ulzana's Raid
( 1972 )
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
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The Unbelievable Truth
( 1990 )
A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
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Uncle Buck
( 1989 )
Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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United 93
( 2006 )
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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The Unloved
( 2009 )
A film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger.
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Unstoppable
( 2004 )
Dean has PTSD after a wet-job gone bad in Bosnia. Waiting for his police girlfriend at a diner, some bad guys inject him with a hallucinogen. It sends him back to traumatic experiences in Bosnia and he reacts violently.
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V for Vendetta
( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
( 1960 )
After being shipwrecked, a man finds himself on an island inhabited by tiny people, who soon make plans for him.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
( 1955 )
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
( 1984 )
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
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Avanti!
( 1972 )
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
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The Accidental Tourist
( 1989 )
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
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American Splendor
( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Alien Autopsy
( 2006 )
Humoristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal related to the fake documentary The Alien Autopsy (1995) about the Roswell incident.
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Amadeus
( 1984 )
The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.
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Alphaville
( 1965 )
An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet.
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Arlington Road
( 1999 )
A man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly.
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Alligator
( 1980 )
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.
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All That Jazz
( 1979 )
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Accepted
( 2006 )
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
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A Wednesday
( 2008 )
A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career and a case that was never filed but continues to haunt his memories: the case of a man and a Wednesday.
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
( 1975 )
A recently-widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
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Affliction
( 1999 )
A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.
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Jabberwocky
( 1977 )
A young peasant with no interest in adventure or fortune is mistaken for the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
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Adrift in Manhattan
( 2008 )
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
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Loch Ness
( 1996 )
A scientist tries to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
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